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RFlagg
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My favorite line from a book is from the book 'Beyond Tuesday Morning' and the line goes like this The mom and the daughter were moving from NY after living there all there lives and the daughter says " Mommy its okay to cry, you know why?" "why?" "Because if you cry a lot when you say goodbye, it means you loved a lot" ^ For some reason that line really touched me.
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From Edward Gorey's "The Haunted Tea Cosey: A Dispirted and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas." "To the house opposite Fido was returned from the taxidermist and set down by the fireplace." I just realy speaks to me of the idealogy that nothing good can last, but that that's no reason to not be happy about it later, it brings me hope.
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I'm not sure about my favorite line ever but I've just begun The Bell Jar and the line that has stuck with me the most goes like this: "Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing in a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath." It's just one of those things that I can relate to. EDIT: Okay, new line. I'm about half way through Prozac Nation (I'm starting to feel like me and Elizabeth Wrutzel are the same exact people) and here it: "That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful."
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Last line of The Dead by James Joyce: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
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or The Stranger, by Camus: "I had nothing to say, so I said nothing."
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Midnight Express by Billy Hayes "For a nation of pigs, it sure seems funny that you don't eat them! Jesus Christ forgave the bast*rds, but I can't! I hate you! I hate you! I hate your nation! And I hate your people! And I f*ck your sons and daughters because they're pigs! You're all pigs!"
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"She watched the black mare as her mane blew in the November breeze." Heartland, Lauren Brooke
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As a writer, I like good hooks - that very first sentence that keeps a reader wanting more. Charles Dickens' "The Marleys were dead - to begin with." is such a line. Who wouldn't want to find out what he was talking about?
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"Life is difficult." First sentence in "The Road Less Traveled," by M. Scott Peck. Amen to that.
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In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when two philosophers are complaining that having a supercomputer that will reveal the Great Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything will put them out of a job. "That's right," shouted Vroomfondel, "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
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"Your not really real until someone loves you". The Velveteen Rabbit. and..."Its only from the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eyes." The Little Prince.
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"LOVE CAN NEVER GROW WHERE THERE IS NO TRUST." This is the line that Cupid said to Psyche before he left her in anger and dismay. This may not be the actual text though, as it is a simplified translation of the real Greek Oral Tradition line of the said story, which was written about these two Classical Greek deities. I can remember it pretty well up until now, so I guess, it really is one of my most favorite lines.... The book, by the way, where I've read it from, was Edith Hamilton's "Mythology".
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My original answer has already been mentioned by Northernlight (so it must be a good'n) Here's one from a book I read recently called "The Surgeon of Crowthorne" by Simon Winchester - 'The Marsh was a sinister place, a jumble of slums and sin that crouched, dark and ogre-like on the banks of Thames' ...and a classic from "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie - 'When the baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was the beginning of fairies.'
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
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I don't know what it says about my sense of humor but the one that comes back to me is: "The Queen would say, "Where is my Darkness? Bring me my Darkness," and this meant that someone would soon bleed, or die." from LKH's book A Caress of Twilight. It's refering to the Queen of Faerie and her assassin. For some reason, the Queen's line cracks me up. Maybe because the assassin, Doyle, is one of the book's more serious characters...
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i love this whole paragraph... i observed the woman i had been until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear-- it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was... controlling and enslaving what should really be free: her emotions... trying to judge her future loves by the rules of her past suffering... but love is always new... love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us to somewhere... we simply have to accept it, because it is what nourish our existence.....♥♥♥♥
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