Book Quotes I Love from the Last Year

“You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.” 
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.” ― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“Texas was where the action was. It became a lodestar, pulling an enormous number of the men—Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, James Bowie, and others—who were already in some way legends on the old frontier. As one historian wrote, Texas seemed to cast some sort of spell, to make men who were cold, pragmatic, and opportunist in the main, want to go and die.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

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“You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.” 
---Benedict Freedman, Mrs. Mike

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“It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from hunger.” 
― Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

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“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.” 
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.” 
― Mary Karr, Lit

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“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.” 
― Mary Karr, Lit

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“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” 
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

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“You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?"

"I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.”  

---Charles Portis, True Grit

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“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” 

---Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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