Favorite quote out of a book?

Question

Mine is from Dragonlance, though not sure which book it was exactly.

"Hope is the denial of Reality. It is the carrot dangled before the daft horse to keep it plodding along in a vain attempt to captures it"

or

"Nothing happens by chance. Everything happens for a reason. Your brain may not know the reason, it may never figure it out. But your heart knows. Your heart always knows."

Answer 1

I have many, but one that hangs over my desk is, "To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true." This was said by a character in Ayn Rand's book , "Atlas Shrugged."

Answer 2

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas:
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era.. The kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something, maybe not, in the long run. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
And that, I think, was the handle.. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting... On our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark... The place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Answer 3

"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."

It's from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Answer 4

One of mine is from one of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books...

It goes into this story of the character was playing a form of scrabble, got angry, threw the letter Q into a bush, and a lot of bad misfortunes happened from the result...and the final thought on it is...

"One should never throw the letter 'Q' into a privet bush"

...ah here, I found an excerpt

"He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn't stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away.

During the following weeks Ford Prefect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the letter Q into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when this is unavoidable."

...and of course..."42"

Ha, I love those books!

Answer 5

From Good Omens:

Firstly, that God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infi nite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Answer 6

Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweak.
From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Answer 7

"Hope is a good thing, Red. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

from Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"


"One of life's great truths is this: When one is about to be crushed by a flying, 800lb Coke machine, one can think of little else."

from Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers"

Answer 8

"Show me a man or a woman who is truly alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and you'll have that wonderful modern concept known as a 'society.' Give me four and they'll make one an outcast. Give me five and they'll re-invent prejudice. Give me six and they'll start forming their own countries. Give me seven and they'll re-invent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is constantly trying to find its way back home..." From The Stand, by Stephen King

Answer 9

"Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is as (if there were) a niche and within it a lamp, the lamp is in glass, the glass as it were a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east (i.e. neither it gets sun-rays only in the morning) nor of the west (i.e. nor it gets sun-rays only in the afternoon, but it is exposed to the sun all day long), whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself), though no fire touched it. light upon light! Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah sets forth parables for mankind, and Allah is All-Knower of everything".
[Quran, 24:35]

Answer 10

"Success in life isn't a given. It's costs attitude, ambition and acceptance" - Jennifer Leigh Youngs, in "Chicken Soul for The Soul"