Ever read something that gave you that a-ha moment? These life changing quotes from modern literature and selected by the Vibant review team may do just that.
"I remembered everything. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull. Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, would numb and cover them. But they were part of me. They were my landscape."
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
—George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."
—Yann Martel, Life of Pi
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
—John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'"
—Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"'Are you ready?' Klaus asked finally. 'No,' Sunny answered. 'Me neither,' Violet said, 'but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.'"
—Daniel Handler, The Ersatz Elevator
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