Hello Readers,
Today, Aug. 9, 2022, is National Book Lovers Day. This unofficial holiday is observed to inspire book lovers to celebrate reading and literature. Today, as any other day, you are advised to put away your cell phones and every possible distraction and pick up a book to read. Here’s a list of books we are reading this year.
In honour of National Book Lovers Day, here are the 15 best quotes from the most hauntingly beautiful books we’ve read-
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Remember me, even if it’s only in a corner and secretly. Don’t let me go.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
“I know you’re still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
– Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
“Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge.”
― Vincent Willen van Gogh
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
Comment below if you have a favourite quote you turn to — whether it’s from a book, a famous person or someone in your life? <3
P.S.
What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever read?
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