hypomnemata: Interesting Book Quotes
A collection of favorite book quotes and literary excerpts.
| Book | Quote | Author | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe” | World Line | Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw | Science |
| “Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymir” | Stories, Coyote said | John Crowley | Fiction |
| “See Under: Love” | Tefilla Prayer | David Grossman | Fiction |
| 1Q84 | This was the very same hand | Haruki Murakami | Fiction |
| 1Q84 | Two moons | Haruki Murakami | Fiction |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey | HAL | Arthur C Clarke | Fiction |
| 2nd Corinithians 5:17 | All things are become new | Paul | Religion |
| Amatka | Amatka | Karin Tidbeck | Fiction |
| Andor Season 1 | I’ve made my mind a sunless space | “Luthen Rael” | TV |
| Annals of the Former World | The summit of Mt Everest is marine limestone | John McFee | Nature |
| Be My Knife | Be My Knife | David Grossman | Fiction |
| Being a Quaker | What does love require of you | Geoffrey Durham | Religion |
| blackswangreen | music | David Mitchell | Fiction |
| Book of Isaiah | Isaiah 40 11-12 | Isaiah | Religion |
| Borne | The fox said I needed to jazz up the place | Jeff Vandermeer | Fiction |
| Borne | Three dead astronauts | Jeff Vandermeer | Fiction |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Joyce will never have any more fruit punch | “Anya” | TV show |
| City | What is man | Clifford D Simak | Fiction |
| Cloud Atlas | Clouds | David Mitchell | Fiction |
| Coleman’s Bed | Be taught now among the trees and rocks | David Whyte | Poetry |
| Dance, Dance, Dance | Yougottadance | Haruki Murakami | Fiction |
| Dead Astronauts | To the children I loved | Jeff Vandermeer | Fiction |
| Dead Astronauts | We lived in joy | Jeff Vandermeer | Fiction |
| Dead Astronauts | What lived there | Jeff Vandermeer | Fiction |
| Discourse on Abbatôn | Advocate | Timothy, Archbishop of Alexandria | Religion |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Kipple | Philip K. Dick | Fiction |
| Dull Knife | Someone else’s house | Anna Akhmatova | Poetry |
| Embassytown | You have never spoken before | China Mieville | Fiction |
| Exhalation | Contemplate the marvel that is existence | Ted Chiang | Fiction |
| Exhalation | This great exhalation | Ted Chiang | Fiction |
| Gideon the Ninth | Gideon the Ninth | Tamsin Muir | Fiction |
| Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Sunlight | Haruki Murakami | Fiction |
| Hate that Cat | This is just to say | Sharon Creech | Children’s Poetry |
| How Iceland Changed the World | How do you aim a volcano | Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson by way of Egill Bjarnason | History |
| How to Destroy the Book | The People of the Book | Cory Doctorow | Non-fiction |
| Hymn | All creatures of our God and King | St. Francis of Assisi | Religion |
| Isaiah 55:12 | All the trees of the field shall clap their hands | Isaiah | Religion |
| Jagannath | Cloudberry Jam | Karin Tidbeck | Fiction |
| Job 38:4,7 | Where were you … | Unknown | Religion |
| Job 41:1-8 | Leviathan | Unknown | Religion |
| John 1:1-5 | The Word | John | Religion |
| John Adams | Let us dare | John Adams by way of David McCullough | Biography |
| Kraken | This trench of sleep | China Mieville | Fiction |
| Last of the Mohicans | Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | Fiction |
| Little, Big | A house made of time | John Crowley | Fiction |
| Little, Big | Daily Alice | John Crowley | Fiction |
| Little, Big | One Step | John Crowley | Fiction |
| Little, Big | Thank you | John Crowley | Fiction |
| Love that Dog | Love that dog | Sharon Creech | Poetry |
| Mrs Dalloway | For there she was | Virginia Woolf | Fiction |
| My Friend Mr Rogers | Graciousness | Mr Rogers by way of Tom Junod | Biography |
| Never Let Me Go | Never to let her go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction |
| Never Let Me Go | Water | Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction |
| Number Nine Dream | I dream … | David Mitchell | Fiction |
| NYTimes 30 July 2020 | John Lewis | John Lewis | Op-Ed |
| OK Computer album | Airbag | Radiohead | Song |
| Orlando | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | Fiction |
| Otherwise | Beasts | John Crowley | Fiction |
| Perdido Street Station | We make plans | China Mieville | Fiction |
| Possession | The smell of the aftermath | A.S. Byatt | Fiction |
| Possession | These things are there | A.S. Byatt | Fiction |
| Raconte Moi | Raconte Moi | M83 | Song |
| Ragnarok | Yggdrasil | A.S. Byatt | Fiction |
| Railsea | From Railsea | China Mieville | Fiction |
| Resurrection Fern | Resurrection-Fern | Iron and Wine | Song |
| Slowness | Slowness | Milan Kundera | Fiction |
| Smilla’s Sense of Snow | Resolution | Peter Hoeg | Fiction |
| Smilla’s Sense of Snow | Smilla’s Sense of Snow | Peter Hoeg | Fiction |
| Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | I went to the house she said | Cory Doctorow | Fiction |
| Stella Maris | It would taste like music | Cormac McCarthy | Fiction |
| Stella Maris | Our time is up | Cormac McCarthy | Fiction |
| Story of Your Life | Fermat | Ted Chiang | Fiction |
| Story of Your Life | Story of Your Life | Ted Chiang | Fiction |
| Tell all the truth, but tell it slant | slant | Emily Dickinson | Poetry |
| The Aleph and Other Stories | Argumentum Ornithologicum | Jorge Luis Borges | Fiction |
| The Aleph and Other Stories | The Aleph | Jorge Luis Borges | Fiction |
| The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories | Streets | Bruno Schulz | Fiction |
| The City and the City | The City and the City | China Mieville | Fiction |
| The Gay Science | Eternal Return | Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosophy |
| The Good Place | The wave returns | “Chidi” | TV show |
| The History Boys | The Best Moments in Reading | Alan Bennett | Play |
| The Hobbit | Gandalf Came By | J.R.R. Tolkien | Fiction |
| The Hobbit | You are a Very Fine Person Mr Baggins | J.R.R. Tolkien | Fiction |
| The Homerica Hymns | Hades to Persephone | Hesiod | Hymn |
| The Horse and His Boy | Myself | C.S. Lewis | Children’s Fiction |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | My soul is the arena | Niko Kazantzakis | Fiction |
| The Manual of Detection | Where are we going next | Jedediah Berry | Fiction |
| The Master and Margarita | How sad the evening earth! | Mihail Bulgakov | Fiction |
| The Right Stuff | There was a demon that lived in the air | Tom Wolfe | Fiction |
| The Road | Maps and mazes | Cormac McCarthy | Fiction |
| The Road | The Breath of God | Cormac McCarthy | Fiction |
| The Scar | This is a possible letter | China Mieville | Fiction |
| The Strange Bird | The Strange Bird | Jeff Vandermeer | Fiction |
| The Stranger | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Fiction |
| The Ten Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | Self … which someetimes calls itself Perception | David Mitchell | Fiction |
| The Water Dancer | May you find a love | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Fiction |
| The Water Dancer | Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Fiction |
| The Waves | That other clock | Virginia Woolf | Fiction |
| The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | Cool showers | Michael Chabon | Fiction |
| This Modern World | What are cats thinking | Tom Tomorrow | Comic |
| Time enough for love | Specialization is for insects | Robert Heinlein | Fiction |
| To the Lighthouse | We remain | Virginia Woolf | Fiction |
| Virconium | Virconium | M. John Harrison | Fiction |
| War of the Worlds | Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic | H.G. Wells | Fiction |
| Way of Kings | First ldeal | Brandon Sanderson | Fiction |
| Wicked | The Goddess of Gifts | Gregory Maguire | Fiction |
| And so they lived many happy years | |||
| Be with those who help your being | Rumi | Poetry | |
| Get out into the mountains | John Muir | Nature | |
| Go to the limits of your longing | Rainer Maria Rilke | Poetry | |
| Love save us from life | Pablo Neruda | Poetry | |
| MLK | Martin Luther King | Quote | |
| The bridge is love | |||
| The Edge of all there is | Tracy K Smith | Poem | |
| The Stolen Child | W.B. Yeats | Poetry |
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