Your Favorite Quotation...

[aquablue]

Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

I saw a bubble float past my window, fat and wobbly and ripening toward that dragonfly blue they turn just before they burst. So I looked down at the yard and there you were, you and your mother, blowing bubbles at the cat, such a barrage of them that the poor beast was beside herself at the glut of opportunity. She was actually leaping in the air, our insouciant Soapy! Some of the bubbles drifted up through the branching, even above the trees. You two were too intent on the cat to see the celestial consequences of your worldly endeavors. They were very lovely. Your mother is wearing her blue dress and you are wearing your red shirt and you were kneeling on the ground together with Soapy between and that effulgence of bubbles rising, and so much laughter. Ah, this life, this world.

Post your favorite quotation from a novel you've read.

[Digger]

I think there's already a thread for these aquablue, but at the moment its location excapes me!

[m.]

There's Aphorisms (http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=624) thread but it's a good idea to have another for other, less aphoristic quotes or longer fragments which we'd like to share. I thought about something like that too.

[ions]

“I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn’t free out here. All the animals, the plants,
the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every
day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the
least free of all. I can’t even give you hope that it will be different someday—that
They’ll come out, and forget death, and lose Their technology’s elaborate terror,
and stop using every other form of life without mercy to keep what haunts men
down to a tolerable level—and be like you instead, simply here, simply alive. .. .”

Gravity's Rainbow, p 233