Book Quotes That Will Make You Think

I’ve been writing all weekend. I wrote a short story and a diary entry. I’m now getting that itch to read something new. As I was researching lists of new books to read, I stumbled across a thought-provoking quote from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I saw the film adaption but I’ve always wanted to read the book; it has so many heartfelt quotes. I made a list of some of my favorite passages from ELAIC and some other great books below.

“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.” – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

“This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you’re clinging to and start over, whether because you’ve outgrown it or because it’s not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.”  – If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You, Kelly Cutrone

“This moment will just be another story someday.” –  The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” – The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”  –  I Know Why the Caged Bird, Maya Angelou

“The worst thing about religion was religious people.” – The Marriage Plot,  Jeffrey Eugenides

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“There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” – Emma,  Jane Austen

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.” –  I Know Why the Caged Bird, Maya Angelou

“When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.” – The Secret, Rhonda Byrne

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.” – On Keeping a Notebook in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

“I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories.”  –  The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

“In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you’ll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.” –  If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You, Kelly Cutrone

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.” – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer