Obviously a book is more than it’s best lines but sometimes a precise bit of phrasing can just bowl you over. My most recent is from Ready’s translation of Crime & Punishment:
“I’m only given one life and that’s my lot. I don’t want to sit around waiting for “universal happiness”. I want to live myself or else I’d rather not live at all. Well? I just didn’t feel like walking past a hungry mother, gripping a rouble in my pocket and waiting for “universal happiness”.”
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From The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I realize that I have put into motion the end of a lackluster life in the interest of eventually finding a great one.”
I have been thinking about that a lot lately.