Quotes to Take You Places in Books
Quotes to take you places in books
There are certain lines, paragraphs even, that once you read them, you never forget them. Here’s a few I have written down this year in a notebook – a book of bookish memories if you will….
The lines below take you to some interesting places….
A Dead Man Walking
“Paintings and tapestries adorned the rough stone walls, all of them depicting great battles, men on horseback, and the offspring of people who’d clearly married their relatives.”
Nowhere Burning
“If this doesn’t work, Riley hopes that she loses her mind. She doesn’t want to be in her body for what happens next.”
Mona’s Eyes
“He must have read a lot of books”
“You know back in the 1500s, when Leonardo was alive, books were rare. Printing had only just been invented, He owned around two hundred volumes in his library, and that was already massive.”
The After Party
“Meanwhile the snow continues to fall, twirly lazily, oblivious to the grisly scene hidden beneath the arches of the bridge.”
And a favourite of mine….
“Fields sped by in the darkness of a Scottish morning. Soon I’d reach Edinburgh and I’d board an early train to Fife. A ghost of my face stared back at me in the glass. It was Christmas Eve and I was almost home.”
These lines made me laugh, cry, smile and just sit there and think. Lines that stuck with me. I love it when that happens. I don’t like annotating books so I keep a notebook where I write things down according to their shape and how I see them in my mind (I have synesthesia so see words as shapes). I liked these lines for what they contain, the images they create and the shapes they left behind in my mind.
Sounds weird I suppose but who else does this happen to?
Susan x
Keep in touch with The BookTrail
Twitter: @thebooktrailer Insta: @thebooktrail
Bluesky: @thebooktrail.bsky.social Pinterest:@thebooktrail
FB: @thebooktrail.LiteraryTravelAgency Threads: @thebooktrail
