Daily Literature Quotes

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

“Write what should not be forgotten…”

Writing is a great way to keep something important recorded. Heck, we still have stories and records from the beginnings of civilization. No doubt if you write something down or put it out somwhere, especially with the internet these days, it won't go entirely unnoticed.

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

If you don't know where you are going, any road can take you there.

Finally @Fate is brought to the table again!

This is an interesting quote and, fun fact, I'm pretty sure this isn't even in the book. If I remember correctly the actual exchange goes a little something like this:

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

But I digress. The quote is interesting because it means if you have no goals in life then you won't get anywhere even if you are going somewhere. You need to set goals in order to progress.

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

“Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through dazzling quicksand,
the march of blank paper.
With instant obedience
they change clothes and mannerisms, drop a speech impediment,
develop a motive backwards
to suit the deed's done.
They extend skeletal arms
for the handcuffs of contrivance,
slog through docilely
maneuvers of coincidence,
look toward me hopefully,
their general and quartermaster,
for a clearer face, a bigger heart.
I do what I can for them,
but it is not enough.
Forward is my order,
though their bandages unravel
and some have no backbones
and some turn traitor
like heads with two faces
and some fall forgotten
in the trench work of loose threads, poor puffs of cartoon flak.
Forward. Believe me, I love them though I march them to finish them off.”

This was actually part of my AP practice exam and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it because as a person who writes, this speaks to me in some weird way. I think it can be described as sending our characters to war with what all we put them through. It would not be too far fetched.

But what's your interpretation?

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them in with your favorite colors.”

Submitted by @solivagant

As a person who has parents that even after eighteen years can't seem to understand why I'm not exactly like them, I understand what this is trying to say. Children aren't just blank slates that you can put whatever traits you want onto them, they're their own unique person that grows and develops in response to the world around them. They will have both perks and flaws and it's likely you won't like all that they have to offer, but sometimes you just gotta learn to deal.

[Ganyu]

One of the greatest crimes parents unintentionally commit is trying to sculpt their flesh and blood into an idealized version of themselves. They want the best for their kids, no doubt and one cannot fault them for such mentality. But it is highly important to draw the line between encouragement and imposition. Not every child is going to be the next Einstein or the next Beethoven. Not every child is good at physics, chemistry or biology. Not every child is going to be able to speak German, French, Chinese, Japanese and Russian proficiently. Not every child is going to be heterosexual. And that is why we are all unique pictures, with different colours and hues and shades.

[Noblejanobii]

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Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

I feel like this is one of those quotes you'd see on a motivational poster or something.

Anyway, ah the Ulysses. I didn't know what this book was until I was watching a video with my friend about Homestuck, and the commentator compared Homestuck to the Ulysses, calling Homestuck "The Ulysses of Webcomics." Well I instantly had to look this up. If you know about this book, it is for one of two reasons. Either: A) You know it because it is regarded as one of the greatest works in literature history or B) You know it because it is known as complete Hell to read. Yes, ever since I started researching this book, I found out very quickly that this book was infamous amongst readers as the single hardest book to read ever. Now, I haven't read it so I can't exactly say whether or not this rumor is true, but nevertheless, if you get the chance to read it, think for yourself. This book may be a tough read, but it is also regarded as one of the greatest books ever written, so I implore you to take the chance to read it should it be presented to you.

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

People often describe reading books as taking a ride through another mystical land. I think that's a great way to describe what books are, since they are our imaginations interpreting words on a book. And while movies can interpret what we read in many ways, Percy Jackson fans know good and well what movies can do to books. Thus, it is true, there is no other true way to enter the world of a book than through reading it. Movies can jerk emotions, I cry all the time when it comes to movies. But only true books can get me to cry. Movies may make me angry, but only a book can make me so angry that when I'm supposed to be focusing in class I instead promptly throw the book across the room. Movies can give me happiness when my favorite character is alive, but only books can give you true suspense in anxiety and fear, then deliver a true euphoria when they are alive.

[Noblejanobii]

Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

“You don’t write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.”

If school has taught me anything about literature, it's that many tales were meant to educate people about something that was never known before. The corruption of the twenties, the horrible treatment in africa, or the investigation of the meat industry are just three examples of exposures we have received thanks to people who took a pen to paper. Writing is another voice that we have and without it, many people would be deprived of different parts of their voice that still shake the earth to this day.

[Noblejanobii]

I'm going to be preemptively closing this until July 21 (or shortly there after) because I will be quite absent until then. Hope to see you all soon! Feel free to submit more quotes while I'm gone though!

[Noblejanobii]

Welcome Back!

So here we are again with the official re-opening of the Daily Literature Quotes! I asked you guys to submit me quotes while this was closed but no one did. Thankfully I've skilled got plenty of quotes up my sleeve and to start us off I thought I'd post a quote from my latest read and favorite novel, The Night Circus. @solivagant knows it well.

You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.
You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

As you'll recall, I did another quote from The Night Circus long ago at the suggestion of Solivagant. At the time I was completely unaware of the novel's true mastery. Then, while preparing to go to Italy, I realized I had left the book I had intended to read on the flight and during the trip at home, and given I was in the Newark airport at the time, there was no going back for it. So I went to the Hudson bookstore and began to skim the shelves the books and low and behold there was The Night Circus. As you can imagine, I was stoked to read it and had planned to read it first, but then I found Darkest Magic and Morgan Rhodes has me hooked like a fish so I had to read that and then a summer reading book before I got to the lovely wonder of a book. You can read my review of it here, but that's not the point of this quote.

One of my favorite parts of this book is that it has four main characters, and you, the reader, are one of them. It throws you into Le Cirque des Rêves or the Circus of Dreams, as a first time visitor that explores the place. Often times, Morgenstern would drop a hint or some foreshadowing in one of the parts of the book that you are in and then explain what it meant later on in someone else's perspective. You can ask my parents, I did not book this book down once I picked it up, it was so good. Anyway, the book begins and ends from your perspective and these are the last lines of the book. After reading these, I started to think about how I usually feel after I've read a book and I realized that, often times I feel like the book is more real than my own life, and if the books I read are on one side of the fence, where those worlds feel so much more alive than mine, then my life is the other side, and it doesn't feel quite as vibrant. This is by far one of my favorite literature quotes ever and don't be surprised if you see more quotes from this book later on.