What are your favourite literary quotes of all time?

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You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him

 

Gary D Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter 

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 @Alison by Slowdive thank you for reviving this thread 

 

 

“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving” - Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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“And then…………… suddenly just as I Draco kissed me passionately. Draco climbed on top of me and we started to make out keenly against a tree. He took of my top and I took of his clothes. I even took of my bra. Then he put his thingie into my you-know-what and we did it for the first time.”

—Tara Gilesbie, My Immortal

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'My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

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 "These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume."

 Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

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“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began."

 

- Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

[Mer 61,733]

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”
 

- Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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All these sophisticated and profound wordages. 
 

Not really a quote, but something I always think about is how Megara from Hercules asked him that he wanted to be petty and dishonest, when he claimed he wanted to be like everyone else. To which, she answers, yes they are. 
 

She’s such an excellent character. One of my muses really, a spirit muse.