I’ve been reading up a storm around here. Since it’s a rainy Saturday morning here, let’s play a game. From the books I’ve been reading the last little bit, I went on a bit of an excursion. Which books do the following quotations come from? I’ll post all the answers tonight before I go to bed. Have any of your own you want to add to play along? Go find the books you’re reading and jump in!
1. “Nothing is more deceitful … than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
2. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
3. “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
4. “Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
5. “Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground.”
6. “The train was rocking through wide open country before Elsa was able to put off the misery of leaving and reach out for the freedom and release that were hers now.”
7. “I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick.”
8. “She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. Shetravelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
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