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Mass Quotes #6

August 2, 2008 at 10:12 pm (books, faith, friendship, life, people, television) (ann brashares, books, people, sisterhood of the traveling pants, television)

I still can’t post from Paper Towns. Sigh.
The next post will most likely be all quotes from Breaking Dawn, which I picked up at midnight last night, but am nowhere near finishing (I worked all day!). I will post a spoiler warning though. Here’s what I haven’t posted yet.

After that she spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it.
-Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue, The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“We are trapped in our senses,” her old teacher, Annik, told her once. “They are all we have of the world.”
And so they are the world, Lena remembered thinking then, and many times since.
-Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue, The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Right now I’m having amnesia and déja vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
-Steven Wright

“I know what it is,” she said. “We aren’t in Bethesda anymore and we aren’t in high school. We aren’t really in our families and we aren’t in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren’t us. If we think they are, then we’re lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren’t any place or any time.”
She thought of their Pants. She pictured them blowing off the laundry line and into the air, floating and soaring until they silently merged into sky and sea.
“That’s the thing. We are everywhere.”
-Carmen, Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue, the Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“Faith is personal, you have to figure it out for yourself.”
-Mr. Raeburn, State of Grace

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Mass Quotes #3

May 11, 2008 at 9:53 pm (advice, books, death, friendship, life, people, wisdom) (books, charlottes web, eb white, frederick douglas, higher power of lucky, lewis carroll, people, susan patron, william lloyd garrison)

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
-Lewis Carroll

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.”
-Lewis Carroll,

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

I am in earnest–I will not equivocate–I will not excuse–I will not retreat a single inch–and I will be heard.
-William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
-Frederick Douglas

Just the sound of those chimes made Lucky feel cooler. But she still had doubts and anxious questions in all the crevices of her brain, especially about how to find her Higher Power.
If she could only find it, Lucky was pretty sure she’d be able to figure out the difference between the things she could change and the things she couldn’t, like in the little prayer of the anonymous people. Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.
-Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

Then that sign that still said POP. 43 would really be wrong. But what Lucky wanted most was for that sign to stay the same forever, with no subtracting allowed.
-Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

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