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14 Great Quotes From Even Greater Reads: Part III

A running list.

Felicia Selvakumar
Oct 31, 2017
The College of New Jersey
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14 Great Quotes From Even Greater Reads: Part III
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Throughout my life, I've been inspired by many quotes from literature. This is a running list, so there's always more to come. Without further ado, here are some more of my favorites!

1. “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had." - Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

2. “Sometimes you weren't yet the person you needed to be to do the work you needed to do." - Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

3. “This is what happens to people when they spend their entire life inside books + never come out: real life starts to grate by comparison." - Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

4. “You couldn't trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday." - Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

5. “Choice isn't the same thing as freedom—not when someone else is framing the choices for you." - Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

6. “William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-" - Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

7. “Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." - Toni, Morrison, Beloved

8. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." - Toni, Morrison, Beloved

9. "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." - Toni, Morrison, Beloved

10. "To be, or not to be:that is the question..." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

11. "India and its peoples; not the British India of cantonments and Clubs, or the artificial world of hill stations and horse shows, but that other India: that mixture of glamour and tawdriness, viciousness and nobility. A land full of gods and gold and famine. Ugly as a rotting corpse and beautiful beyond belief..." - M.M. Kaye, The Far Pavilions

12. “I'm a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock?" - Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

13. “Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him." - Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

14. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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