#one of my favorite quotes from this book

[its-tortle]

— gabreille zevin, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

#one of my favorite quotes from this book #of the many #it made me cry when i finished it last night #tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow #literature #quotes #words

[poorly-drawn-scumvillain]

"Shen Qingqiu didn't even want to pretend to meditate, so he lay on the bed, just pretending to be dead"

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#poorly drawn scum villain #svsss #actually one of my favorite quotes from the book

[motylek]

Only since meeting you have I rediscovered how simple it is to be happy

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hualian #mxtx #hua cheng #xie lian #quotes #danmei #novel #text #this quote lives rent free in my head #one of my favorite quotes from the books #i need to save more of those #hualian my beloved #my edit

[themusicsweetly]

“I have lived through war and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for he will sometimes die for, too... For the sake of love alone I would walk through fire again.”

—The Fiery Cross

#jamie fraser #outlander #outlanderedit #outlander book quote #outlander season 7 #outlander season 3 #the fiery cross #my edit #that new one of JAMMF #is one of my favorite of him ever #what a great shot #but also #is that flag anachronistic? lol #i thought we were a few years from that

[tomatoland]

I would rather fight with you than make love with anyone else

TopMew, Only Friends Episode 11

#topmew #ofts #only friends the series #the quote is actually from the wedding date which is one of my favorite movies #nick mercer says it to kat ellis #forcebook #force jiratchapong #book kasidet #top tanin #mew witsarut

[fictionadventurer]

Many men had offered her many things in the past, love and friendship, luxury and jewels, entertainment, dogs, amusements, homage--some she had accepted, some refused, but no man before had offered her work. Peter had offered her that, he had offered her a share of his--not noble or inspiring or fascinating work, just his work, what he had. He had offered it her, called her great energies into play, and set her to work beside himself in a furrow. And she was glad; for some reason she found it very good.

--Desire by Una Lucy Silberrad

#books #jo walton has done it again #almost the only reason i ever look at tor.com these days is to read her monthly roundup of the books she's read #because a good chunk of her reading is the type of classics i love #including a lot of forgotten light classics of the early 20th century #this was one of those #mentioned in a column from last year that i happened to read the other day #with a review that said this should be one of those classics that everyone knows and reads #instead of being this completely forgotten book #and since it happened to be on hoopla (a common perk of these types of book recs from her) i read it #i don't think it's all-time classic great #but it's a solid middlebrow novel #the beginning was a bit of rough going but after the major part of the plot kicked off it become rather lovely #because there was a lot of the above #explorations of the value of work and friendships and relationships #and because of things like the above quote the central relationship is one of my favorite romances of the year #it's a solid relationship built on friendship and mutual respect #with both of them having stories and emotional journeys beyond the romance #reminded me a little bit of gaskell in some ways

[junkjounral]

June 6, 2023

“There is no difference between trying to love and loving” —Joy Ladin

#joy Ladin #junk journal #junkjournal #journal #art journal #gluebook #quote #bujo #aesthetic #bullet journal #scrapbooking #bird aesthetic #nature aesthetic #ion normally say what these are abt in the tags but this one was abt my mom #v messy and not one of my favorite pieces but it was honest and I did what I could which I think sums up where she and I are too #the partial quote from joy ladin’s book had me sobbing when I read it #I was feeling it on so many levels. being trans and Jewish and how do those fit together. having family problems. going thru change that #strikes u to ur core and u would die without but also not wanting to do it. so uh anyway she’s incredible #and I recommend her to anyone for any reason just read her shit it’s so fucking good

[catastrxblues]

so glad i decided to go to my school library when i started feeling sick during class this morning because otherwise i would never have found a rare copy of a room of one’s own by virginia woolf and borrowed it and have it at home with me right now ready to be continued oh my god

#i love libraries #they also have like a gajillion copies of the percy jackson books so cool of that for them #(they also have a copy of lockwood and co and i want to read it but they only have the translated version #and i just always find them very odd to read :/ #translators are awesome and they make so many works of fiction from all over the world so accessible in so many different places #but i always prefer to read a book in its original language if i can understand it well enough to be honest) #AND they also have a copy of the picture of dorian gray #this is great #i’ve always wanted to read a room of one’s own #and i actually had once started a digital copy of it and abused the highlights/comment features at 2 am in the morning #but NOW i can actually read it from a physical copy and read the annotations the previous owner had written #AND take photos of my favorite quotes to have them rejoiced and remembered in my full storage phone gallery #anyways #this is a silver lining #a room of one's own #virginia woolf #booklr #library #nadirants

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: TUCHANKA (PART 2)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, Urdnot Wrex, and Dr. Mordin Solus With: Urdnot Bakara And a Special Guest Appearance by: Kalros, Mother of All Thresher Maws I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake... big picture made of little pictures- too many variables. Can't hide behind statistics... can't ignore new data- my responsibility. Need to go- running out of time. Not your work, not your cure- not your decision. Had to be me- someone else might have gotten it wrong... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #james vega #EDI #urdnot wrex #mordin solus #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #i'm gonna continue the rambles in the part 2 gifset but one of the things i adore about tuchanka is the scenic shots #there are literally so many gorgeous ones that about half of part two is scenic shots because holy fuck tuchanka is beautiful #the kalros reaper ones especially? like those are so cool i had to include at LEAST a few of them bc that fight is awesome #and when the cure disperses?? literally the prettiest scene in the game #EDI and james have really cute dialogue together too!! i adored their moments towards the end of the mission #although i did say i was gonna give thoughts on mordin in sur'kesh and i think it boils down to him being an okay?? character in my book #like mordin definitely isn't one of my favorites but i will respect that he's definitely a very complex character and he's interesting imo #especially in terms of how he's written and his motivations/how he sort of grows and evolves over both ME2 and ME3 #like the quote i subquoted the post with is the one you get when you try to stall him from going up into the tower #(so it's not from soph's canon- but i love the scene so i used it anyways) #and one of the things i really like is that you can see the switch from mordin in ME2 who argues that what he did was RIGHT #versus mordin in ME3 who is starting to see what was wrong in the context of all the new information he has #and for me- seeing a character who can grow to recognize that they're flawed and made mistakes- i can respect the HELL outta that #even if mordin isn't my favorite character in the trilogy i'm gonna give him massive props for his character growth arc #because it's always interesting to see someone grow and recognize their mistakes and find a way to be a better person #to own their mistakes and fix the shit that they fucked up #i don't think i'd ever choose the option to not cure the genophage but mordin will always get props from me for his character arc tbh #i'll stop rambling now! have a good day wherever you are <3

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

i want to write everyday in my journal in august

#idk if i should buy a new journal bc the one i have has pages numbered and a table of contents and i just think it would be perfect for #documenting all the media i consume like imagine separate sections for movies and books #getting to write down all my favorite quotes from them and my overall thoughts

[desertfangs]

"A singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note, but the simplest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor."

Marius, explaining to Lestat the elegance of human movement and how just because you can do something in a cool and unique way doesn't mean that that way is always better

The Vampire Lestat

#marius de romanus #this one was one of my favorite quotes from the books when i first read them #marius has a lot of wisdom actually lol but does lestat listen? #no no he does not #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #vc quotes #vc #vampire chronicles

[franken-loser]

My favorite lines and quotes from A Botanical Daughter🌱

(spoilers!!)

#been thinking about this book again🙏🙏🙏 #i love writing down stuff i like from books #i have....so many frankenstein quotes #“absorbed into its female gaze” goes so hard #“a homosexual heart beats as tellingly as poes” is bold AND underlined cause it's literally one of my favorite lines I've ever read like #what the fuck its so cool #a botanical daughter #simon rievaulx #gregor sandys #jennifer finch

[lightthewaybackhome]

Just one of those lines that grips me every time. I feel like this is the heart of our story in a way. What do you think @alana-k-asby?

#Stoneheart #coming soon #Asby and Jones #fantasy #western #steampunk #writing #writeblr #reading #bookblr #books #quotes #Not my favorite line from our book #but one of my favorites #Stoneheart vibe

[sexcromancy]

I know I've made this post before but it is literally so wonderful that I work in a place that has an enormous number of books for children about self soothing and feeling your feelings so that when I am extremely emotional at the end of the day I can read a nice book with beautiful illustrations that encourages me to feast at the buffet of human emotion. wah

#that is a direct quote from rachel vail's new book sometimes i kabloom which i just read and sobbed about #her other book sometimes i grumblesquinch was a favorite from last year 😭 #unfortunately everyone loves my current favorite soothing book (everything is in the world by kevin henkes) so its always checked out #but god. i am so happy for babychildren that have all these wonderful books. and also all the silly ridiculous ones #BIG WEEK

[wizard-mp4]

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

—From “Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib” By the princess Irulan

#cowmmunist #dune #dune book 1 #dune quote #princess irulan #muad'dib #collected sayings of muad'dib #one of my favorite things about the first dune book are the excerpts from the perspective of princess irulan

[fictionadventurer]

"It looked like a good day for setting fence posts, and my mother said so while taking the biscuits from the oven. 'Some morning early, when I can get away, I want you to come with me along the edge of the hill in the wood-lot," she continued. "When the shadows of the trees begin to come down the slope, as the sun rises you feel the turning of the earth. You feel the whole globe under your feet rolling into the sunlight. . . . That's something I found one morning when I was driving the calves to pasture. I've been saving it up for you. I wonder if you've seen a more beautiful dawn in any of the places you've been.'

On my fingers I count the dawns I have seen--memorable, just in being dawns. Sleepy-eyed dawn from the Paris markets after a night of dancing; mist dawn against which I was just to late to see the minarets of Constantinople--all the fault of the stupid stewardess who didn't wake me in time; one startling moment of color on the hills around the Dead Sea before they went colorless in merciless heat; sudden dawn like a clap of light over the freezing-cold Syrian desert. Four dawns in twenty years. No, I do not know dawns as my mother does."

-- Rose Wilder Lane, "A Place in the Country" (1925)

#little house #rose wilder lane #laura ingalls wilder #a little house sampler #i dove into the book seriously this morning #intended to read just the first couple of pieces and kept reading 'just one more' until i've got about 2/3 read #most of laura's pieces are familiar from her farm columns #though there's a couple of early versions of little house stories that show a lot of her voice did get through there #rose's are fascinating #i can't quite wrap my head around her #sometimes she'll seem neurotic and restless and judgey and sophisticated and a bit pretentious #and then she writes some of the most beautiful nostalgic pieces #showing so much love of home and family and the simple joys of life #this piece might be my favorite so far because it grapples with those two sides #after four years as a foreign correspondent she's back at home in mansfield #and she has a new appreciation for her parents and the work they do and the life they've built #now that she's had her adventures and is no longer a restless teen looking to get away from rural poverty #even in the other pieces it's fascinating how much love of her family comes through when you know about the difficult relationships #i should share some quotes from the piece about mary when i get the chance #(also i'm very upset that she didn't write down the story of why she and her parents never read the last book in the school library) #(you don't end with a sequel hook and just leave me hanging ms. lane!) #anyway i love the whole essay that this is from and there are other worthwhile quotes #but i like how this one captures the 'noticing beauty while doing farm work' side of laura that i've come to think of as her trademark