Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 20)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Year: 1937

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 18)

Valis


Author: Philip K. Dick

Year: 1981

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 19)

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

Year: 1818

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 17)

The Witches

Author: Roald Dahl

Year: 1983

 “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”

 

Powerful Literary Quote (Day 16)


Birdsong

Author: Sebastian Faulks
Year: 1993
“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 15)

Stardust 

Author: Neil Gaiman

Year: 1999

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 14)

The Price of Salt

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Year: 1952

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 13)

The Good Soldier

Author: Ford Madox Ford

Year: 1915

“Why can’t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”

 

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 12)

Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

Year: 1874

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”

 

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