Over the years, we've read a LOT of books. Today we want to share some of our favourite quotes and highlights with you - Bookaholic-style, of course!
Let's start off with Noah's favourite quotes:
“The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork, stimulating the brain and freeing one’s intellect."
Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Grand Admiral Thrawn)
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A great quote from one of my favourite books, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (highly recommend it! I've written a whole LinkedIn post about here), and one that shows both the beauty and the difficulty of its prose:
„An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates, and what we call reality is a certain connection between these immediate sensations and the memories which envelops us simultaneously with them - a connection that is suppressed in a simple cinematographic vision, which just because it professes to confine itself to the truth in fact departs widely from it - a unique connection which the writer has to rediscover in order to link for ever in his phrase the two sets of phenomena which reality joins together.“
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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Yep, that's all one sentence! The kind that you read once, then go through it again slowly, truly understanding its meaning.
Here's another one of Noah's favourites:
“Finding more fallen out hair on your pillow, watching your favorite stuffed bread disappear from convenient stores. The accumulation of those little despairs is what makes a person adult.”
Kento Nanami
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A bit sad if you ask me, but I guess that is kind of a good description of growing up...
Okay, I had to dig a bit for the next one, because a bunch of my favourite quotes are either melancholic, very poetic, or by Marcel Proust (or all three at once).
“I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants.”
Mr. Micawber/Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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Ok, the themes in David Copperfield are also often sad, but there are so many really interesting characters, like the good Mr. Micawber. As might be obivous from the quote, he often manages to fumble around with his words; I found this one funny enough to save it.
I need to sneak another Proust quote in here (I have waaaay too many of them):
"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves and not anything else, by the immobility of our conception of them."
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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Let's get musical with another one of Noah's favourites:
"I heard that pictures don't change Just the people inside of 'em do Whoever told you that life would be easy I promise that person was lyin' to you.”
NF, Lost in the Moment
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Another good place for quotes from music are Falling In Reverse lyrics by the way.
And, last but not least, here is one I like to think of every time I open a book:
“This book was written with pleasure and should be read the same way.”
Marcin Moskala, Effective Kotlin
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Hope you enjoyed them. Let us know what your favourite quotes are (send us a Bookaholic link, so we can add them to our libraries!).
Cheers,Max
