Inspired by the fabulous ladies at The Broke and The Bookish I present to you my list of the top-ten quotes from literature:
10. “Reality continues to ruin my life.” -Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
9. “I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of perspective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” -Naked by David Sedaris
8. “A person’s a person no matter how small.” Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
7. “I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence.” -Edgar Alan Poe
6. “Lord! What fools these mortals be!” -A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare(?)
5. “If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you.” -Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
4. “Perhaps – I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ” -Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3. “You don’t understand me. I’m a teenager. I’ve got problems!” -The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. “Girls are so queer you never know what they mean.” -Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” -Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen