Looking For a Good Book

For about as long as I have been reading, I have collected quotes. What makes a good quote? I think it’s a snippet of writing that speaks volumes. It is the prose version of a poem – something that, in a condensed manner, waxes philosophic on a subject.  Or it might be a turn of a phrases that perfectly captures or identifies a moment.  Or might just be a sentence that makes me burst out laughing.

There have been times that I’ve looked back on a quote and wondered why I had thought a quote worth saving, but more often than not, I’ve enjoyed looking back on the quotes i’ve collected.

I thought it might be nice to share some of the quotes I’ve been finding in the books I’ve been reading for this blog. I hope you enjoy these as well.

“Jealousy is when you don’t want someone else to have what you have.  Envy is when you want something that someone else does have.”
     ~Shaman Kim Stanley Robinson

“He’s so lazy he married a pregnant woman.”
     ~Shaman Kim Stanley Robinson

“Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for ‘suntan’ is ‘burn.'”
     ~Parasite Mira Grant

“Sometimes humanity is the reason we can’t have nice things.”
     ~Parasite Mira Grant

“Memoirs are selections from your life story, shaped by theme, driven by a few burning questions.”
     ~“Writing Lessons: Just What is Memoir? With Kevin Fenton” Marion Roach Smith

“If we want to end bullying, we must first bring back a sense of civility to our national discourse.”
     ~“Uncivil Discourse” by Altay Sedat Otun from  Bullying Under Attack  John Meyer, editor

“Her eyelashes were long enough to erase a blackboard.”
     ~Stress Loren D. Estleman from Christmas Mysteries: Ten Excerpts to Set the Season

“In the Middle Ages, Advent, like Lent, was a season of abstinence.  Sex at any time during Advent might result in a child who would eventually become a werewolf.”
     ~The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year  Linda Raedisch

“If Svatý Mikulaš, the Czech St. Nicholas, decides you have been naughty, he will turn you over to the goat-hoofed demon Cert who will drag you all the way down to Hell.”
     ~The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year  Linda Raedisch

“Women and my love for them will be the death of me.”
     ~Last to Rise Francis Knight