Alice: "Mi piacciono queste canzoni che fanno rumore, che ti fanno sentire innamorata, pure se non lo sei. Ascolto Bello e Impossibile e mi convinco che sono innamorata...ma di chi? Dell'Amore forse." (Page 23, Alice half). #malestellequantesono #giuliacarcasi
Adam: "This sounds remarkably like one of Elaine's 'How to Fall in Love' techniques." Christine: "Well, maybe I do want you to fall in love." I felt his eyes searing into me. "With life," I clarified. "I want you to love life." (Page 325) #ceceliaahern #howtofallinlove
"Do you love me?"..."Jonas...Precision of language, please!"..."Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete". (Page 127) #loislowry #thegiver
"And then this girl, this waitress, had drawn a picture of him that was absolutely amazing. Anyone would be able to copy his features, but she had got something other than that." (Page 27-28) #jodipicoult #harvestingtheheart
"I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud...then the lunch bell rings, the book closes and I'm plunged back into reality." (Page 208) Don't we all! (PS: All things flawed!) #ceceliaahern #flawed #loveforreading
She Who Knows: "He was tall...shallow chest...jaws looked weak...but his chin was unpleasantly heavy and deep, thrusting out below his flat, pushed in face...his forehead went straight up, no brow ridges...All in all, he was astonishingly ugly." Miss Fellowes: "He was horribly ugly from misshapen head to bandy legs...stocky...oversized skull! That bulging, sloping forehead!...potato nose, receding chin...an ugly little boy." (Page 41, 63) #asimov
"James nodded. 'I suppose the new houses are more suited to entertaining.' 'So that's how you've made your fortune? Out of people's desire to show off?' Grace knew that Stephen was simply angry that this odd little man should have so much more money than they did, but he would never be honest enough as to say it, even to himself." (Page 106) #julianfellowes #belgravia
An interesting novel retracing the paintings ownership going back in time starting from the present (WWII) to the seventeenth century. Each chapter is its own unique story but all invariably linked due to the pull of the painting and the impact it has on each character. #susanvreeland #girlinhyacinthblue
"He tried mathematically to prove to himself that he would not run from a battle...In his life he had taken certain things for granted...bothering little about means and roads...He was forced to admit that as far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." (Page 16-17) #stephencrane #theredbadgeofcourage
