Favorite book?

Question

Give me your favorite paragraph or quote out of your favorite book, preferably paragraph, but whatever you want.

Answer 1

Its paraphrased a bit because the book is huge and to find this quote would take a while. Don Quixote.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, its bound to turn out bad for the pitcher.

Sancho Panza is a wonderful character and he has about a million of these little proverbs in the book. Its part of what makes the book so wonderful. C.

Answer 2

I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you -especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel and 200 miles or so of land, come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped, and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.

Jane Eyre......Charlotte Bronte

Answer 3

For in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
(Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas)

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.And that was all his patrimony.
(Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini)

Answer 4

Roscoe and the Silent Music

Roscoe saw [the slain gangster] Jack ["Legs"] Diamond waiting for a trolley, and told Mac to stop and pick him up. Jack wore a shoulder holster with no pistol, disarmed in death. He didn't say hello to Mac, but you can't blame him [since it was Mac who murdered Jack]. Jack, moving through the timelessness of his disgraceful memories, had insight into Roscoe's destiny.

'Roscoe,' he said, 'there's chaos waiting for you. How will you cope?'

'I'm glad you asked that, Jack,' Roscoe said. 'I'll cope through virtue, and virtue I'll achieve through harmony. The musical scale, always a favorite of mine, is expressed in harmonious numbers: the octave, the fifth, and other fixed intervals, all reflecting an order inherited by this earth. An equivalently calibrated heavenly order guides our planets and stars in their harmonious trajectories, generating the music of the spheres, which, though silent, is mathematically cartable, and always a crowd pleaser. Do you agree, Jack?'

'I try to,' Jack said.

'Virtue,' said Roscoe, 'comes from heeding these unseen numbers, this silent music; also from the judicious exercise of power, contempt of wealth, and a prudent diet. The virtuous warrior who inherits the mantle must, with fire and sword, expel disharmony, amputate sickness from the body, ignorance from the soul, luxury from the belly, sedition from the city, and discord from the family, thereby ending all wars, and restoring music to God's cosmos. This is my plan of attack, Jack. What do you think of it?'

'Virtue was always one hell of an idea,' Jack said. 'Let me off at the corner.'

-- William Kennedy, Roscoe. (2002)

Answer 5

"To visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities but it is scorned by average human nature."

'Tess of the D'Ubervilles', Thomas Hardy.

Answer 6

Business is a game. If you want to win, learn how to be the master of the game.

Answer 7

Favorite Book, the Bible.

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I'm persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8: 35-39)

Also, next to the Bible is "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky.

Answer 8

Was it evil she had sensed yesterday?That deep depression of despair, that dark desperate grief?

taken frm nemesis, by agatha christie!!!!my idol!!!!

Answer 9

"i'm kind of a paranoiac in reverse...i suspect people of plotting to make me happy." -j.d. salinger, "raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and seymour, an introduction"

Answer 10

it would be from stephen kings "deseperation" and it's not even a sentence..."tak, tak alak alak" yeah kind of wierd, but then agains it 's stephen king