[Zooey]

I was thinking that I know for a fact that in certain books, there are just parts that stick out and that I love and cherish for years to come. I love finding new quotes. So I figured we could share some of our favorites. I'll gladly start with a few of mine.

1. This is from one of my all time favorite books. My sister and I go back to it constantly and find new favorite parts each time:

"People are already shaking their heads over me, and any immediate further professional use on my part of the word 'God,' except as a familiar, healthy American expletive, will be taken- or rather, confirmed- as the very worst kind of name-dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs. Which is, of course, enough to give any normal fainthearted man, and particularly writing man, pause. And it does. But only pause. For a point of objection, however eloquent, is only as good as it is applicable." - Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger


2. This book may not be one of my favorites, but the main character is. She writes a cooking column and each chapter starts with a different one of her columns. This is my current favorite:

"It's His Fault You're Fat
Heart ache often drives us to consume things we wouldn't otherwise, such as an entire pint of Caramel Pecan Perfection high-fat ice cream, covered in ganache, the crack cocaine of frozen dairy. Twelve hundred calories per pint, six hundred and eighty of which are fat calories, but it only dulls the pain for a the moment, there's that carb fog while you're standing at the sink shoving it in your face, and then it's over and you feel...used. Like a cheap pickup the Dove people seduced and abandoned in your kitchen, leaving you with sticky hands and an empty cup and a still-broken heart, except now you're mad at Dove, too." - Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Cruse & Bob Mayer


3. I have no real comments other than to say I love this book.

"I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, a part of you left behind continues the life you could have had...some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body...If a potter has an idea, she makes it into a pot, and it exists beyond her in its own seperate life. She uses a physical substance to display her thoughts. If I use a metaphysical substance to display my thoughts, I might be anywhere at one time, influencing a number of different things....there's a chance I am not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and did not make, for a moment brush against each other" - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson


and finally I give you:
4. Not so much because it is one of my favorite quotes, but rather because I am reading the book at present and it seems to be stuck in my head:
"Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand



YOUR TURN!!

This post has been edited by Zooey: 17 February 2009 - 10:40 PM

[Scarlet Speedster]

"Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

"The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music." A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut.