When Love Goes Bad

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There’s love and then there’s love that’s gone bad. . .

“I loved her till they was a dryness like ashes inside me.” ~ The Night Horseman by Max Brand

 

“Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
I’ll knock elsewhere, to see if they’ll disdain me.” ~ The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

 

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

 

Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

 

“You said I killed you – haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

 

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The Web of Our Life Quote Photo

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Happy Monday!  I saw this quote and was reminded about the yin and yang of life.  I’ve posted this quote photo on the LitQuotes Facebook page as well as the LitQuotes Google Plus page for easier sharing.

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipt them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.” ~ All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

Virtue quote

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Miracles Quote Greeting/Note Card

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There was such a positive response to the quote photo featuring the below quote, that I’ve turned it into a greeting card.    You can order the Miracles Quote greeting card, and other fun literary gifts, at the LitQuotes CafePress gift shop.

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. ~ The Innocence of Father Brown (The Blue Cross) by G. K. Chesterton

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quote Photo

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“I’m afraid to speak or move for fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence.” ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery quote

I’ve posted this quote photo on the LitQuotes Facebook page as well as the LitQuotes Google Plus page for easier sharing.

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Quotes About Picking Your Battles

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I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee. ~ The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

“My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.” ~ Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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Five Quotes About the Moon from Literature

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Here are five quotes about the moon from literature. . .

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. ~ The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” ~ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

“I don’t remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.” ~ The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.” ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~ One of Ours by Willa Cather

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The Human Heart is the Best Temple Quote Photo

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“I carry my own church about under my own hat,” said I. “Bricks and mortar won’t make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.” ~ The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Human Heart is the Best Temple

Happy Friday to everyone.   I hope you enjoy this one.  As usual,  I’ve posted this quote photo on the LitQuotes Facebook page as well as the LitQuotes Google Plus page for easier sharing.

New Quotes Added – J. R. R. Tolkien, Max Brand and More

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Quotes from LiteratureYesterday I added new quotes to the collection.  Here are my favorites from the new batch.  Remember that if you have a quote that you’d like to see added, you can contribute a quote.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. ~ The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ~ Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

“Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and deviltry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?” ~ The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville

“Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
I’ll knock elsewhere, to see if they’ll disdain me.” ~ The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

“Words,” said the host, at length, “is worse’n bullets. You never know what they’ll hit.” ~ The Night Horseman by Max Brand

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  • Random Funny Quote –  Need a laugh?  Check out the random funny quote.
  • Random Spooky Quote – You’ll get the shivers! View a random spooky quote from our large collection of scary quotes.

 

8/2/14 – Select BBC Collections on Sale Including Miss Marple

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Calling all fans of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple!  Check out today’s Gold Box deal on BBC’s DVD collections.  Not a mystery fan?  Then you might be interested All Creatures Great & Small based on the book by James Herriot.

There are nonliterary titles included in the sale too.  I’m eyeing the Red Dwarf  collection and Fawlty Towers is always fun to watch.

Miss Marple