For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a
More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one.
There will be other lives for nervous boys with sweaty palms, for bittersweet fumblings in the backseats of cars, for caps and gowns in royal blue and crimson, for mothers clasping pretty pearl necklaces around daughters' unlined necks, for your full name read aloud in an auditorium, for brand-new suitcases transporting you to strange new people in strange new lands.Īnd there will be other lives for unpaid debts, for one-night stands, for Prague and Paris, for painful shoes with pointy toes, for indecision and revisions.Īnd there will be other lives for fathers walking daughters down aisles.Īnd there will be other lives for sweet babies with skin like milk.Īnd there will be other lives for a man you don't recognize, for a face in a mirror that is no longer yours, for the funerals of intimates, for shrinking, for teeth that fall out, for hair on your chin, for forgetting everything.
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