Some favorite quotes

Most quotes I save from the books I read are lines that I think are clever or touched me in some way, so the following is a sample of the random quotes that spoke to me for whatever reason:

• "...you feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it terrifies you." John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
• "As one comes back to the books after years of absence they pour out, even against our expectation, the same store of energy and heat, so that we want more than anything to idle in the warmth as in the sun beating down from the red orchard wall." Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader
• "Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of immeasurable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm." Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
• "By telling stories, you objectify your own experience." Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
• "And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon." Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• "I felt as if I'd stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't." P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves