Quote of the Day

"'You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

'How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.'"

- Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult

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God: I resent you blaming me for everything. And I do not exist to give you what you want.

- Angry Conversations with God, Susan E. Isaacs

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All a rainbow is is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out.

- A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs

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"I think it's beautiful when men show their physical strength openly without being ashamed of it or apologizing. And I think it's beautiful when women dare to be physically weak and accept help with heavy jobs."

- from The Unit, Ninni Holmqvist

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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

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"... then he turned to me in the darkness, pulled me close, one arm around my shoulders, the other holding my head against his chest, and I pressed myself against him with my arm around his waist, my forehead against his breastbone and one leg wrapped around his thighs, almost as if I were climbing him"

- from The Unit, Ninni Holmqvist

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"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.

I'd been broken beyond repair."

- from New Moon, Stephenie Meyer

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Starting a new feature here at You Are Quite the Human ... the Quote of the Day. Being a book addict, I of course love words themselves, and oftentimes certain lines or passages in books (or even movies sometimes) catch my eye and I have to remember them. I have a notebook I keep just for these quotes.

So, to get us started, here's a quote about books!

"But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.

For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress."

- from Julie & Julia, Julie Powell

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"There were moments when my heart ached for him: I loved him so much."

- Dreamland, Sarah Dessen

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"I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell."

- Dreamland, Sarah Dessen

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Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

- Company, Max Barry

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"On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?"

- I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson

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This describes me perfectly:

"Of all things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding."

- I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson

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... I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

- I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson

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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate ... peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them be your acquaintances.

- Winston Churchill

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

- Helen Keller