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@@BookwormCowboy “indisputably” This is literally the definition of an opinion. Anna Karenina is one of the greatest work of fiction to YOU- To others it may be entirely insufferable. We should all try our best to not speak in such absolutes.
I have two from The Lord of the Rings: “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” “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.”
“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn't have. I wouldn't have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.” -- Daisy Jones & The Six
“In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That is as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” -Pat Rothfuss, ‘The Wise Man’s Fear’ Of the thousands of passages I’ve read, it’s probably my favorite. Love your stuff, thanks for all the effort you go to!
“Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good” ✨ I see this quote from a religion perspective. I grew up catholic so I was always told we couldn’t do this or that, and I always thought I was a “bad” catholic. But now I’m OK with being an imperfect one and just focus on being good. Good to others, good to animals, good to the environment and good to myself ❤️
Well said. It made me think of “do not let perfect be the enemy of good.” Too many people give up or lose their faith because the pursuit of perfection is exhausting. But I think if we can focus on pursuing good, we can feel better about achieving things that make ourselves or the world a little bit better. And better is good enough.
I read The Song of Achilles based on your recommendation, read it all the way through in one sitting, and cried at the end. Love your book content!! Would love to hear more!! 🤍
“and now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” Glad you mentioned this one. When I read this my first time through East of Eden i was flooded with the sort of emotion you feel when something profoundly meaningful is said. I guess it sounds sort of counterintuitive at first, but allowing for (even expecting) failure/imperfection in yourself and others truly is the path to goodness. For whatever reason (and maybe we’re not meant to know), when people strive for perfection and inevitably fall short, they generally dissipate into despair, or compensate by finding fault in others. Both are counter-productive if your desire is for life-affirming goodness. I couldn’t imagine my life without people who have made space for my failures and my ugliness. There is something so profound about forgiveness, graciousness, empathy. They are at the root of love and even goodness itself. Idk if I’ve just ranted in circles but had to say something, those few little words mean so much.
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you" Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones...not that you didn't know that ;) This Tyion speaking to John moment I return to frequently. It's such a powerful life message for all.
"Treat a man as he appears to be - and you make him worse. But treat a man as he potentially could be - and he becomes that man." -Goethe "If you want to save the world, go home and love your family." -Mother Teresa "Whoever amongst you is without sin, can cast the first stone." -Jesus
A very short and simple one from a book with so many good quotes: “So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” - Perks of being a wallflower. Not to mention “we accept the love we think we deserve”, which I’m going to get tattooed, definitely.
“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain. It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.” -Cassandra Clare 🥰
Oh wow! I almost included that one. :) “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
I was hoping to see East of Eden here and was not disappointed. It just cannot be understated how profound that book is - it literally changed my life. It sounds like the second and third lines you read are from the short chapter that comes in right after Tom Hamilton writes a letter to his mother (I’m being cryptic to not give spoilers). That chapter hits me like a punch in the gut given what happens right before.
I literally clapped out loud sat alone in my flat when you said east of eden hahahha ❤️ I have two quotes from East of Eden.... it was the first book i picked up as an adult to read for fun. Had the corners of a couple pages turned in. "Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair" "Caleb and Aaron - now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to he dammed" Peace x
Regarding copy rights, it's a pretty easy google search to determine if a book is in public domain. Also, if it was published before 1923, it's automatically in public domain, so most of the classics are failsafe.
East of Eden is my all-time favorite as well: “The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison
I have to thank you again, Sarah, for introducing me to East of Eden, as I was constantly amazed by Steinbeck’s writing style and the depth of wisdom that fuels the story’s characters and events. I love the clever and poetic ways he conveys even simple happenings such as “[the silence] had the weight of age so hard to lift aside” to describe an awkward silence. But I think what I liked most about it was how much I could see of myself in each of the characters. Whether it was good or bad, I found something in each character to reflect on in myself, and that’s something that makes a story great. Overall, a great experience 👍
Medieval literature was easily one of my favorite classes in high school. And Dante's inferno was easily one if my favorite books. Maybe it's the macabre I find humbling or how dark it was
Thank you so much for this video sarah! I really needed these quotes and you have really helped me with my life and you really make tough things seem manageable. You are my favorite asmrtist and at this point I feel like I am connected to you and that you are my best friend so thank you so much❤
I read Don Quixote earlier this year and really enjoyed it. Thought this quote would be topical; “there is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
First of all, To Kill A Mockingbird was my ABSOLUTE favorite book from Middle school!!! It's hard to just pick one quote!!! Secondly the teacher that "forced" us to read it was my favorite teacher, he used to read it to us which made it even more special.
“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.” -- Anne of Green Gables
I love this idea this video was so unique. Thanks for all the hard work you put into your videos Sarah, this really helped me with my anxiety💖 I hope you’re doing well, please remember to eat well, stay hydrated, and get plenty of rest too!
"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." - The Alchemist - Paul Coelho. Totally true, example is in my life, how people are advising me 😅 I hope you have read this book 📙 @SarahLavenderASMR because this book defined to me how a Masterpiece book is... My favorite so far.. Nothing beats it yet.. Love this vid, relaxing to hear it when it's raining at my place..
Great video!! One of my favorites is: “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” -On the Road
"Only the heart can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." The Little Prince by Marcel Proust I've not read the children's book, but I watched the animated French film that is based off the book, and it's top-notch! I highly recommend. 😊
One of my favorite quotes about love is « love means never having to say you’re sorry » (Love Story). Although it might sound very cheesy and, quite frankly, a little stupid, I think the meaning is much deeper than it appears. From my perspective, it means that truly loving someone means accepting who your partner is completely without trying to change them according to your desires. Love means never having to say you’re sorry for being yourself ❤️
Loved the video! Anyone who has read the Hitchhikers Guide I love and respect deeply. Song of Achilles sounds so beautiful, defiantly on my reading list! Btw, don't worry about not being sure how to say "Chaim Potok." The "ch" sound in Hebrew doesn't exist in English, so unless you have been brought up speaking Hebrew, learnt it/heard it a lot, most people (all in my experience) can't make the sound. May you always know where your towel is...
I’ve fallen asleep to this, I’ve sat up and listened to everything you’ve said in it, I’ve even woken up in the middle of it! I look forward to your uploads like I do my amazon packages.
“All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they’ll kill you. But first they must catch you.” Watership Down by Richard Adams. It’s my very favorite book. I also like, “My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night. But oh my foes, and ah my friends, it gives a lovely light.” By Edna St. Vincent Millay. It’s in a collection of her poetry called A Few Figs from Thistles. Also I had to read The Chosen in high school.
@@SarahLavenderASMR The movie was very scary! I love the book so much though. I usually 'lend' it to people. Meaning I give it away. Then buy a new copy. When I worked in a book store I sold it to everyone. I do highly recommend it if you can. If you have a PO box I can send you a copy if you'd like.
The Little Prince. Not sure which quote is my best-just the book. Also there are tones in the Narnia chronicles! Please do your favourite classics that will be awesome
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mine comes from a novel: The Master and Margarita. It's not so much a quote, but a portion of a diologue Woland is having with Berlioz and 'Homeless', so it's a bit long, for it's impossible to extract a single phrase out of it without compromising the contexts. Here it is: ... ‘But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth?’ ‘Man governs it himself,’ Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question. ‘Pardon me,’ the stranger responded gently, ‘but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how man can govern, if he is not only deprived of the opportunity of making a plan for at least some ridiculously short period - well, say, a thousand years - but cannot even vouch for his own tomorrow? ‘And in fact,’ here the stranger turned to Berlioz, ‘imagine that you, for instance, start governing, giving orders to others and yourself, generally, so to speak, acquire a taste for it, and suddenly you get ...hem... hem ... lung cancer...’ - here the foreigner smiled sweetly, and if the thought of lung cancer gave him pleasure - ‘yes, cancer’ - narrowing his eyes like a cat, he repeated the sonorous word - ‘and so your governing is over! ‘You are no longer interested in anyone’s fate but your own. Your family starts lying to you. Feeling that something is wrong, you rush to learned doctors, then to quacks, and sometimes to fortune-tellers as well. Like the first, so the second and third are completely senseless, as you understand. And it all ends tragically: a man who still recently thought he was governing something, suddenly winds up lying motionless in a wooden box, and the people around him, seeing that the man lying there is no longer good for anything, burn him in an oven. ‘And sometimes it’s worse still: the man has just decided to go to Kislovodsk’ - here the foreigner squinted at Berlioz - ‘a trifling matter, it seems, but even this he cannot accomplish, because suddenly, no one knows why, he slips and falls under a tram-car! Are you going to say it was he who governed himself that way? Would it not be more correct to think that he was governed by someone else entirely?’ And here the unknown man burst into a strange little laugh.
Hi Sarah, thanks for uploading another great video! I love your content so much, would it be possible to do an entire video devoted to writing sounds (different utensils, paper tapping)? Full steam ahead for your channel!
your asmr books vids are my favorite 💖 one of my favorite quotes: "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Thank you for the upload. I have been knocking out to your videos before I sleep. Not saying your videos are bad, but expressing my gratitude for the good nights sleep.
"Do the gods of different nations talk to each other? Do the gods of the Chinese cities speak to the ancestors of the Japanese? To the lords of Xibalba? To Allah? Yahweh? Vishnu? Is there some annual get together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshipers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?" -Orson Scott Card
I just read The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (the last in The Poppy War trilogy), and although it destroyed me, it had so many great quotes that I wanted to share some of my favorites! "War didn't end, not so cleanly- it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new wounds." "That centuries of warfare later, this country was still a canvas for the gods, that their celestial essence still seeped through the cracks between worlds." "There are never any new stories, just old ones told again and again as this universe moves through its cycles of civilization and crumbles into despair." "She was dirt. Her army was dirt. But dirt was common, ubiquitous, patient, and necessary. The soil gave life to the country. And the earth always reclaimed what it was owed." "Take what you want, it said. I'll hate you for it. But I'll love you forever. I can't help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I'll let you."
"Sympathy, love of our brothers, for those who love us and for those who hate us - yes, the love that God preached on earth, that Princess Maria tried to teach me and I did not understand - that is what remained for me had I lived." - Prince Andrei in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
""....until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger." - Carlos Ruiz zafon If you haven't read any of his books you should totally check them out! Marina, The Angel Game, Shadow in the Wind are amazing . Shadow in the Wind is by far my favorite book. Also you should definitely read Atlas Shrugged !
One of my favorite quotes from Lair of Dreams by Libba bray (second book in the diviners series) “Perhaps time and space and yes even matter itself are nothing more than constructs of the human mind.”
Ever since I was little, long before I even knew what it was, my biggest ASMR trigger had been people reading things to me. So this video is LITERAL perfection for me :)) Love your videos!!
Every time I see that you've given us a book related video, I know it's going to be a good day. These will always be my favorite. My favorite book quote will forever be "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?" 😄😄 I read the Promise and My Name is Asher Lev by Potok, but not The Chosen. Also check out Mordecai Richler if you enjoyed that. Alan Arkin played Yossarian in the movie version so you could also put that face to the crush LOL
@@SarahLavenderASMR Yes, it is the sequel. It was chosen for a class because of some of the specific subject matter it dealt with, so it was a little weird not knowing what happened first, but it was still excellent. I've been telling myself I am going to go back and read the The Chosen to find out more of the background on the characters for a long time now, but I have never gotten around to it. I'll trade you my copy of The Promise for your copy of The Chosen. LOL 😄
Sorry if it has been said, but the only quote that every struck me so hard that I had to read it to commitment of memory was from War of the Worlds. “Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the martians warred in the same spirit?” It was so well explained of how our ancestors wiped our literal sentient beings, are we much better? Such a great classic novel.
If you enjoy fastasy I would recommend the dune books by Frank Herbert. I havent read the whole series but it is praised for some amazing writing and visuals, plus lots of great quotes.
“Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love - the deepest kind of love." - Where The Red Fern Grows.
there are FAR TOO MANY... i also got about 2 thousand pages saved on my computer, they just acculumate so fast lol now i dont know what to do with them... these are my top 3 :') '“Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.” by Ligotti “Listen-I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’t stop to think, don’t interrupt the scream, exhale, release life’s rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.” by Nabokov "Do it or dont do it - you'll regret both" by Kierkegaard
one of my favorites is from a book i havent even read; it was in an excerpt on my ACT lol. From Stones for Ibarra: "...memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.'"
