I don't care if it’s a suggestion as common as “The Little Prince” which has like 876 famous quotes or maybe more underground books idk maybe just recommend me the Holy Trinity of Literature. irdk. i have never read books like that but i just feel like getting inspiration from reading, I just don’t know where to get it from so go ahead and suggest your favorite books that have entered your heart and never left. your most personal books. the ones that have lines you highlight in color, rip off the page and pin it on your wall tattoo the phrase on your forearms. those kinda books 🙂
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Gregory Rabassa’s translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. This lives rent free in my head:
> With her waiting she had lost the strength of her thighs, the firmness of her breasts, her habit of tenderness, but she kept the madness of her heart intact. Maddened by that prodigious plaything, José Arcadio followed her path every night through the labyrinth of the room. On a certain occasion he found the door barred, and he knocked several times, knowing that if he had the boldness to knock the first time he would have had to knock until the last, and after an interminable wait she opened the door for him. During the day, lying down to dream, he would secretly enjoy the memories of the night before. But when she came into the house, merry, indifferent, chatty, he did not have to make any effort to hide his tension, because that woman, whose explosive laugh frightened off the doves, had nothing to do with the invisible power that taught him how to breathe from within and control his heartbeats, and that had permitted him to understand why men are afraid of death.
Veering far from expectations, I am going to suggest Big Trouble. Lines from that book were in my head making me laugh for years.