just finished this book and this quote hit different as someone starting to figure out what boundaries and self-love actually mean. does anyone else have quotes that made them rethink how they approach relationships?

I’m going to add all the books used, can answer specific quotes too if you want.

Books: (not in order)
The Hunger Games series-Suzanne Collin’s
Gregor the Overlander series-Suzanne Collin’s
Percy Jackson and the Olympians- Rick Riordan
The Alice Network-Kate Quinn
The Twelve-Justin Cronin (second book in The Passage series)
The City of Mirrors-Justin Cronin (third book in The Passage series)
Where the Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens
The Running Dream-Wendelin Van Draanen
The 5th Wave-Rick Yancey
Where The Heart Should Be-Sarah Crossan
Circe-Madeline Miller
The Orphan Train-Christina Baker Cline
Speak-Laurie Halse Anderson
If These Wings Could Fly-Kyrie McCauley
Macbeth-Shakespeare
Psalm For The Wild-Built -Becky Chambers
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Cruel Prince series-Holly Black
The Masque of the Red Death- Edgar Allen Poe

There is a profound stillness in how this moment is described and I find it comforting.

i generally like finding books from pieces I've heard from them elsewhere. im open to anything.!!

"Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life."

Paley, Grace. "A Conversation with My Father." Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974

“It is possible to imagine an art in which the limitations of reality would be minimized, in which the made and the unmade would be indistinct, an art that would be instantaneously real, without ghosts. And perhaps that art exists, under the name of literature.

In this sense all the arts have a literary basis, built into their history and their myths. Architecture is no exception. In advanced, or at least sedentary, civilizations, building requires the collaboration of various kinds of tradesmen: bricklayers, carpenters, painters, then electricians, plumbers, glaziers, and so on. In nomadic cultures, dwellings are made by a single person, almost always a woman. Architecture is still symbolic, of course, but its social significations are manifest in the arrangement of dwellings within the camp.

The same thing happens in literature: in the composition of some works, the author becomes a whole society, by means of a kind of symbolic condensation, writing with the real or virtual collaboration of all the culture’s specialists, while others works are made by an individual, working alone like the nomadic woman, in which case society is signified by the arrangement of the writer’s books in relation to the books of others.”

such a small sentence for such a huge realization. do you read this moment as mostly about elizabeth misjudging darcy, or about how much faith she had in her own first impressions?

i'd love to hear how others interpret it, especially whether the line feels different on a reread.

AT EVE'S GRAVE

ADAM: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden.

Sometimes i feel and and have experienced and seen people who make this quote true whats your view upon this. Btw found this on the cover of notes from the underground by fyodor dostoevsky.

"The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."