A Contest Of Quotes
My Kind Of Contest!
@mrprofessor asked for our favorite quotes in his Epic Quote Challenge, Share Your Quote/Book and Win SBD post. Here's my response.
I've read hundreds and hundreds of books. History, classics and distopian books are my favorites, but I can tear through a good gardening book too. I've got a list of books that I've read and re-read, and will read again. But there's one that I've read at least once a year, every year, for the last 15 years. I've read four copies of it right out of their spines. With the loose pages of those copies I've made Christmas ornaments, jewelry and other art because I could not bear the thought of throwing those pages away.
This post probably isn't going to sell you on reading it. I will probably sound pretty terrible. But it is pretty terrible, but in the most wonderful way possible! This my favorite book because it is so desperately and powerfully passionate. Passionate in a way that makes you feel love and hate. Real, true love and honest, pure hate. I think it's worth reading once to experience the quality of emotion that no other book I've read can invoke.
It's a title everyone knows, but few have read. It has influenced paintings, poem, movies, and even a comic book. It was the inspiration for the lyrics in Total Eclipse Of the Heart. Pat Benatar, covered a song called Wuthering Heights.
I've read that Wuthering Heights is a romance novel. It is not. But, it is a love story. And it's a hate story. It's a story of passion.
Although author Emily Bronte never married, and it seems that she was never romantically envolved with anyone, the dialog that she wrote for Cathy and Heathcliff would lead a reader to believe that she must have loved fiercely and hated wildly.
Hate is as much a theme in the book as love. But this article is about my favorite quotes, and my favorites are about love. But not regular love. The love between Cathy and Heathclif, though they never really had the chance to enjoy it, was a furious, savage, severe kind of love that stole their breath and gave them life.
I'm sorry for anyone who has never felt the enchantment that is knowing that their soul had found it's only absolute equivalent.
The intensity of Cathy's love for Heathcliff can be felt and understood through this quote, even if it was the ony line one read.
But this is my favorite book quote.
This is the single most powerful and anguished line in the book and it is the single most passionate thing I have ever read. Heathcliff is the antagonist of Wuthering Heights. I believe it's his character that is responsible for the 1851 review of the book, "...one of the most repellent books we ever read." Even though he's the bad guy, I'm sorry for him. I can't image the pain and desperation behind those words.
It's quotes like these that made me fall in love with the book. They make me feel what the characters are feeling. It's the only book I've ever read that breaks my heart. And it breaks it over and over again, every time I read it.
What makes your favorite book your favorite?
Have you ever read a book to pieces?
What's your favorite book quote?
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Have you ever read a book to pieces?
What's your favorite book quote?
Awwww this is a great one @mrprofessor...for some reason I have Kate Bush in my head though...
No wonder she wrote a song about it!!!
Yep.
Time travellers wife did that to me... and when Bombodor died in LOTR. And Incredibly Loud etc by JS Foer. Howled.
Yeah, I just like Pat Benatar's cover a little better. Kate Bush's scares me a little, lol.
I've never read The Time Traveler's Wife. But it sounds like I need to! I'll put it on my list.
I know you helped him out with the idea, but you should participate. I mean LOTR is one of the most quotable books ever. I'd be interested to find out what your favorite quote is.
I've not been able to cope with any sorts of romance or love novels since I was a teenager, so I'm afraid this will probably remain unread for me.
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Heeeey @powellx5, sorry for taking so long to comment, life's kinda crazy over here.
I love your enthusiasm towards the book, you seem to really really love this one! Loads of points for you.
I don't read romances, actually, I kinda forgot about this part of life in my real life hahahahaha kinda exchanged girlfriends for an adventurous life.
The only one I've read is called Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, do you know this one? a all time brazilian classic.
Thank you a bunch for the awesome post!
I'm not familiar with it, but I'll look into it.
Wuthering Heights isn't a romance story, it's a tragedy, really. It's more about.... deceit and revenge than love, but it's about love too. I guess it's about crazy people in dysfunctional relationships. lol
In any event, everyone can enjoy Total Eclipse Of the Heart. Right? It was inspired by the book. 😝
ahahha dysfunctional relationships good one
You know, I'm really slow when it comes to book reading, it's a shame I know, I should read much more. I remember that I read Dom Casmurro because my girlfriend at the time had dumped me hard, soI just wanted some distraction, from there on I've been reading here and there.
But I'm enjoying it a lot reading about other people favourite books and quotes, love the enthusiasm.