I absolutely love Zusak's use of color to evoke emotion and images. For example: "His eyes were the color of agony" (312); "even Papa's music was the color of darkness" (88); "iridescent fear" (169); "breakfast colored sun" (399); "her plump figure glowed with worry" (167)
#imagery
"The brute strength of the man's gentleness." (Zusak 33)
"Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness." (Zusak 74)
"...the scratchy feeling of sin" (Zusak 146)
#imagery
"A young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn." (Zusak 185)
"Even death has a heart." (Zusak 193)
#death
"The only thing truly visible was her voice." (Zusak 294)
"She hauled the words in and breathed them out." (Zusak 303)
#books
"Even the wrinkles around her eyes were joining hands." (Zusak 377)
#imagery
"Books and pages and a happy place." (Zusak 413)
#books
"Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me thnk that something good can come of any of htis. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore." (Zusak 416)
#despair
There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. " (Zusak 417)
"He steps on my heart. He makes me cry" (Zusak 422)
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Book Quotes About Books/Reading
"Thank God for anyone who'll fight for the right to sit down with a good book - and then, the right to sit down with some good friends and that good book." (Amy Smith)
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” (Jane Austen)
Austen defends novels and reading:
“And what are you reading, Miss – ?”
“Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.
“It is...only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.”
"She hauled the words in and breathed them out." (Zusak 303)
"Books and pages and a happy place." (Zusak 413)
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” (Jane Austen)
Austen defends novels and reading:
“And what are you reading, Miss – ?”
“Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.
“It is...only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.”
"She hauled the words in and breathed them out." (Zusak 303)
"Books and pages and a happy place." (Zusak 413)
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Book Quotes About Women
"Even the most ordinary women's lives have a touch of magic." (Amy Smith)
Need for change in women's status in society:
Need for change in women's status in society:
“I read it (history) a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all – it is very tiresome” (Austen)
“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” (Austen)
“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.” (Austen)
"Austen gave value to something that was undervalued - the daily lives of women, the things that mattered to them." (Smith)
"Austen gave value to something that was undervalued - the daily lives of women, the things that mattered to them." (Smith)
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Great Quotes: All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane (Smith)
"I love teaching because I love learning, and none of us is a finished product." (301)
#education
"Believable happiness - that's what's in store for Austen's protagonists." (299)
"The landscapes of your life are the people around you." (284)
#people
"True democracy depends on an educated public." (254)
#education
"Thank God for anyone who'll fight for the right to sit down with a good book - and then, the right to sit down with some good friends and that good book." (147)
#books
"Austen gave value to something that was undervalued - the daily lives of women, the things that mattered to them." (104) #women
"Even the most ordinary women's lives have a touch of magic." (78)
#women
"We don't find love when we're looking for it, you know. That's not how it works. Love finds us." (57)
#love
#education
"Believable happiness - that's what's in store for Austen's protagonists." (299)
"The landscapes of your life are the people around you." (284)
#people
"True democracy depends on an educated public." (254)
#education
"Thank God for anyone who'll fight for the right to sit down with a good book - and then, the right to sit down with some good friends and that good book." (147)
#books
"Austen gave value to something that was undervalued - the daily lives of women, the things that mattered to them." (104) #women
"Even the most ordinary women's lives have a touch of magic." (78)
#women
"We don't find love when we're looking for it, you know. That's not how it works. Love finds us." (57)
#love
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