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This week WG's asks:

We all have our favorite bookish quotes. Some well known, and some not so well known. This week for our geeky assignment I thought it would be fun for us to share some of those favorites. It can be just one favorite that you'd like to highlight, or a whole list. It can be quotes from books, or quotes about books and reading.

I thought I'd share a few quotes from some of my favorite books today:





Best Intentions by Emily Listfield

The main character Lisa, a mom in her late thirties, describes motherhood in her eyes:

"You have to get up sweetie," I whisper as I run my fingers under the blanket and tickle her, her body at least nominally still mine. The softness of her neck, her arms makes the walls of my heart constrict. No one really tells you how much it is like falling in love over and over, how physical and encompassing it will be. Or that you will never feel completely safe and relaxed again.

Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti


This book is a quirky, sweet love story about Benny and Desiree.

Love makes others into doves,

gazelles, cats, peacocks-but I,

quivering, wet, and transparent-

am your jellyfish.

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne is among my favorites in literature.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant....

What about you? What are some of your favorite bookish quotes?

Enjoy your weekend!

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think this is an interesting quote. I like finding passages that stand out while I'm reading a book. Quotes that I can personally relate to. It's these passages that make me feel connected to the story and make the book unforgettable for me.


How about you? Do you find passages within books that almost seem meant for you?



Enjoy your weekend :) I'll be cuddled up finishing Gideon’s Sword this evening. I've also got quite a few new books in the mail that I will feature on my next Mailbox Mondays post. One of which is a book called Alice in Zombieland.

Weekly Geeks suggests: On Monday it's Valentines Day here in the US, which means love is in the air! Many of us have been talking about love all month, but I thought it would make a perfect Weekly Geek-ish type assignment to suggest a post that included anything about love that moves you.



I chose favorite couple in books, movies, TV or real life.


I am a big-time sucker for romance, so picking just one favorite romantic film or book couple is virtually impossible for me. But at the top of my favorites is Gone With the Wind.

I like both the film and book, the movie possibly more. I just always love seeing Rhett and Scarlett on screen with their drama and romance. Rhett always knows how to put a spoiled Scarlett in her place, here is one of my favorite scenes when he proposes marriage to her.










Rhett: So, you see I shall have to marry you.

Scarlett: I've never heard of such bad taste.

Rhett: Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?

Scarlett: Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!

Rhett: Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?


Scarlett: Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!

Rhett: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Scarlett: You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.






What about you? What's a favorite movie scene/couple of yours?

Don't let the past steal your present.

~Terri Guillemets

Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!




Rhett Butler: I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

Enjoy your weekend everyone. What better way to start it off than with a fav GWTW moment? For me at least :)

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happy Friday everyone. Isn't the above quote bittersweet? And a bit sassy too? I like it!




I'm sooooo happy this long week is finally over.
I'll be doing my usual blog hopping this evening to see what everyone is up to.

Have a great weekend :)

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

- Helen Keller

Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy your weekend :)

I plan on blog hopping this weekend and seeing what everyone is up to. I also fully plan on relaxing as much as possible after a long work week.

What are you up to?

Good morning everyone :) I hope you're enjoying your Saturday. I'm here with my cup of coffee in hand, getting my posts ready for the upcoming week, listening to my playlist on youtube...Leona Lewis' Happy is playing now. I like having music playing in the background while I'm online. I'm also about to do some blog hopping to see what you all have been up to. And last but not least, I wanted to make sure I got my WG post in for this week as well.




This weeks Weekly Geek's:

This week we'd like you to revisit a favorite past Weekly Geek topic or one that you've haven't done before.

There's been so many great WG topics but one of my favorites was
A Quote A Day where Dewey encouraged us to share favorite passages from books, political quotes, humorous quotes, quotes about books or reading...etc.


I really enjoy quotes and frequently post them on my blog, all kinds of tidbits that can make you think, make you smile or just make you nod your head in agreement. Whenever I'm reading a book, I always bookmark the quotes within the story that I really like and I include them in my reviews.




One of my favorite quotes from a book comes from Kate Chopin's The Awakening, After I read this story it quickly became a favorite. This quote about the sea and how it 'speaks to the soul' especially stood out.

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clearing, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

What about you? Any favorite quotes to share?

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~Oprah Winfrey

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Claudia Ghandi

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

~Edna St Vincent Millay


art by john william godward

"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary."

-Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

-Cicero

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun...

-Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same..."-Catherine Earnshaw

-Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The other day, Wisteria posted
a quote from one of her favorite books, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, on her blog. She prompted her readers to do the same.



One of my favorite books is Alice Hoffman's The Ice Queen:

'Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. They bruise and bake and come back to haunt you.'

This book had me mesmerized. If you haven't read it, I recommend it.

Feel free to share a favorite quote from a book as well!

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.


Groucho Marx