It's hard for me to recall famous quotes, even if I really loved the quote when I heard it or read it. It's just not the way my brain works to recall specific sets of words. Rather, I often recall sequences of events and emotions with much more clarity. I have, however, compiled a few of the passages I've enjoyed reading (I had to search them up to get them exact) in various of my favorite books. I did not include movie quotes for this purpose. I was also unable to find some of the quotes that I remember liking very much and I do not own all the books. All the quotes are about different things and they certainly do not include all my favorite books, such a feat would be almost impossible. However, I did try to get as many as I could think of right at the moment and I may attempt to find more later and add them as I remember other of my favorite books.
"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white." John Grisham -- A Time to Kill (My memory of this quote is a little different to what I found, but it is delivered in the book by one of the jurors to their fellow jury members and in the movie it is the lawyers closing argument. I have excluded the explicit part of the quote, but those of you who have either seen the movie or read the book will understand.)
"People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for." Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
"What are men to rocks and mountains?" Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
"Conventionality is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness." Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
"There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbor's business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain." L.M. Montgomery -- Anne of Green Gables
"'Hide them all, then," he croaked. 'Keep her --them-- safe. Please.'
"'And what will you give me in return, Severus?'
"'In -- in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything'" J. K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"'Why doesn't anyone turn on this Improbability Drive thing?' he said. 'We could probably reach that.'
"What are you, crazy?' said Zaphod. 'without proper programming anything could happen.'
'Does that matter at this stage?' shouted Aurthur.
"'Though your dreams be tossed and blown...' sang Eddie.
Arthur scrambled up on to one of the excitingly chucky pieces of molded contouring where the curve of the wall met the ceiling.
"'Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart...'
"Does anyone know why Arthur can't turn on the Improbability Drive?' shouted Trillian.
''And you'll never walk alone.... Impact minus five seconds, it's been great knowing you guys, God bless..... You'll ne...ver...walk...alone!'" Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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