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Quotes for Quotable Books.

"A word after a word after a word is power." Margaret Atwood

Lauren Sim
Oct 25, 2016
Augustana University
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Quotes for Quotable Books.
Penguin Teen

Every time I finish a book, I put a quote inside of it. The quote always has to be from another source that is separate from the book itself. By doing this, I force myself to gather an overall meaning and/or theme from the book I have just finished in order to get more out of it. This process not only allows me to think about the reading in a deeper way, but it also allows me to connect the book to the words of other writers and thinkers.

1. Life of Pi

"Adapt or die." --Charles Darwin

2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

"If you were, unfortunately, a person who faced reality, you didn't have much of a chance."--One Survivor Remembers (Holocaust film)

3. Henry IV Part 1

"Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." --Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. 1984

"In the prisons of his days teach a free man how to praise." --W.H. Auden

5. The Secret Life of Bees

"A test of love. The sharper the pain, the greater the proof."--The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

6. A Doll's House

"His count of enchanted objects had been diminished by one." --The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. Me Before You

"I don't want to survive, I want to live!" --Wall-E

8. Sula

"As if that time were a name he'd cease to use." --The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

9. Othello

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair." --"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley

10. Gone Girl

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it." --Hamlet by William Shakespeare

11. Agamemnon

"At this stage only foul play cleans the slate." --"Weighing In" by Seamus Heaney

12. Hamlet

"Stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability." --Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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