We asked members of the UNH HerCampus community to submit their favorite quotes in literature. Here’s what they said:
– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
2. “They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
– S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
3. “Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
5. “I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you are listening to that song, and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-A.A. Miline, Winnie the Pooh
7. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
8. “Some infinites are bigger than other infinites.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
10. “Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
11. “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
13. “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
14. “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice