Penta Quotes
© Mind Curry 2004 - 2007
"Blue skies smiling at me..Nothing but blue skies do I see.."
Taken from a plane, just lovedddd the blue..
The sunshine gal, Silverine, has done it again. Tagged me. But this is one tag I loved the moment I read about it. What I need to do is list 5 of my most favorite quotes from books that I have read. Alright, I am not going to quote from my favoritest medical text books and hurl gory details about the intestines and flesh at you.
I knew it will be almost impossible to shortlist 5 quotes if I tried to remember and list all my favorite books. So what I am gonna do is just think of the books that I have read and then list the excerpts as they come into my mind - so this is not really my all time favorites, but the ones that came to my mind now, quite randomly.
1. One of my all time favorites and kind of the stuff that re-initiated me into reading after a long break while I was in med school. When a dear friend read this to me long ago, I was for a moment, dazed. The book and the person remain to be among my favorites.
"You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow"
The Prophet
2. My second love (among books!) and one of my all time favorites. It had scenes, descriptions, and certain characters that I could relate to and hold close to my heart.
"It hadn't changed, the June Rain. Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds. The grass looked wetgreen and pleased. Happy earthworms frolicked purple in the slush. Green nettles nodded. Trees bent.
Further away, in the wind and rain, on the banks of the river, in the sudden thunderdarkness of the day, Estha was walking. He was wearing a crushed-strawberry-pink T-shirt, drenched darker now, and he knew that Rahel had come.
Estha had always been a quiet child, so no one could pinpoint with any degree of accuracy exactly when (the year, if not the month or day) he had stopped talking. Stopped talking altogether, that is. The fact is that there wasn't an "exactly when." It had been a gradual winding down and closing shop. A barely noticeable quietening. As though he had simply run out of conversation and had nothing left to say.
Yet Estha's silence was never awkward. Never intrusive. Never noisy. It wasn't an accusing, protesting silence as much as a sort of estivation, a dormancy, the psychological equivalent of what lungfish do to get themselves through the dry season, except that in Estha's case the dry season looked as though it would last forever. Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was--into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets--to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. It usually took strangers awhile to notice him even when they were in the same room with him. It took them even longer to notice that he never spoke. Some never noticed at all. Estha occupied very little space in the world."
The God of Small Things
3, 4 and 5. Stuff that pieces us together and lets us continue with our daily lives with humility, respect, love, and courage.
"The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."
Farewell To Arms
How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
Robinson Crusoe
"Never pass up new experiences, Scarlett. They enrich the mind"
Gone with the Wind
Now here are some random quotes that I remembered, but not sure which books or if at all they are from any books.
'You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same'
One of my all time favorites! I cant stop smiling every time I think of this. What an idea!!
'The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits"
Supposedly told by Einstein. Brilliant, in any case!
Every bad situation will have something positive.Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
I am not as positive as that, but something sweet I thought.
Despite the high cost of living, It remains popular.
This is a really funny one. Love it.
I once had a brush with mortality. The brush died.
This is even more hilarious!
Silverine, thank you soooooo much. I enjoyed this thoroughly. I even pulled out some of my favorite books and read through them for a bit.
Now to tag 5 people..I havent been around in blogosphere much these days and so I will leave it open. You are welcome to take it up.
posted by Mind Curry at Monday, September 01, 2008
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