This post in inspired by the thread on Quora. An irresistible page-turner is a wonderful thing, but there are books which pack sentences so prevailing that you stop reading, lower the book and simply live in the words for a moment. Here are my personal favorites:
- “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” ~ 1984 by George Orwell
- “It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.” ~ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” ~ The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ~ The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” ~ Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.” ~ In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ~ The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- “Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.” ~ Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” ~ The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
- “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
- “My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” ~ Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” ~ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- “One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ~ The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us” ~ Lord of the Rings: A fellowship of the ring by J.R.R Tolkien
- “Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” ~ Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
- “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ~ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” ~ Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- “Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.” ~ Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Augustine
- “For you, a thousand times over.” ~ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- “If you lived honestly, your life would heal itself.” ~ Emotional Resilience by David Viscott
- “The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.” ~ The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey by Muhammad Ali and Hana Yasmeen Ali
- “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~ Animal Farm by George Orwell
Simply Simple 