What’s your favourite literary quote?

“We’ll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon” <3

“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”

“This is the only story of mine whose moral I know, I don’t think it’s a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”- Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut

“Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself.”
It’s an anonymous quote but I love it.

I could be bound in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space if it were not that I have bad dreams.

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

Dylan Thomas

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good

"There's no crying in baseball!"

Tack ! And I parry your last essay
So may a turn of my hand forestall
Life with it’s honey
Death with it’s gull
So may turn my fancy roam
Free for a time, til the rhymes recall
And as I end the refrain, thrust home

‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’

I whipped off her bloomers 'n stiffened my thumb an' applied rotation on her sugar plum.......