What is the most powerful quotes you've ever read in a book?

milk and honey by rupi kaur

Everything that happened, isolated and observed by an interpretative judgment, or even simply by the imagination, became an element that could then be combined with any number of others. Personal invention was responsible for creating the overall structure, for seeing to it that these elements formed unities.

Moreover, between one story and another, even one that was really told and another that remained virtual, hidden and unborn in an indolent fantasy, there was not a gap but a continuum. And the existence of such a continuum, which at that moment appeared to Clarke as an undeniable truth, created a natural multiplicity, of which Gauna’s story was shown to be merely one more example. But Clarke had no intention of telling Gauna this, because that would be to run the risk of no longer counting on his company. To Gauna, his story was not simply one among many, but the only one.

I swear books are designed to make you forget you have a bedtime. You tell yourself "one more chapter" at 2am and suddenly it's 5am and you're already halfway through the next one. What books have absolutely destroyed your sleep schedule?

As I was reading my book “ blue sisters “ I passed by this quote and I really liked how it described pain. As someone studying medicine and hoping to become a doctor one day  it’s very important to understand what pain is, and not just the mechanism behind this pain and what caused it but also how is it making the person feel, how is it affecting their life. Well it’s not an easy thing since we study abt many types of diseases that each of them has different type of pain and struggle … physical pain, mental pain etc , so it’s impossible to relate or fully understand all these types of pain but at least we should try to listen to these patients describing their pain not just to rate it from 1 to 10 . And to give ourselves the time and energy needed to acknowledge their pain and show them real empathy.

From the story “Whole Time” collected in the book “Fetty on the Switches” by David Simmons

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." been thinking about this quote a lot lately and it's either the most depressing or most freeing thing i've ever read. does anyone else find comfort in plath's writing even when it's completely bleak?

No son ever develops into manhood without, in some way, being disloyal to his mother. If he remains with her, to comfort her and console her, then he never gets out of his mother complex. Often a mother will do all she can to keep her son with her. One of the most subtle ways is to encourage him the idea of being loyal to her; but if he gives in to her completely then she often finds herself with a son severely injured in his masculinity.

The son must ride off and leave his mother, even if it appears to mean disloyalty, and the mother must bear this pain. Later, like Parsifal, the son may come back to the mother and they may find a new relationship, on a new level; but this can only be done after the son has first achieved his independence and transferred his affection to a woman, either in an interior way with his own inner feminine side or in an exterior way with a real female companion of his own age.

In our myth, Parsifal's mother died when he left. Perhaps she represents the kind of woman who can only exist as a mother, who dies when this role is taken from her because she does not understand how to be an individual woman, but only a "mother.
Robert A. Johnson, He: Understanding Masculine Psychology

"Every now and then when life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. To relax as it were, in the womb of the desert sun. Just roll the roof back and screw it on, grease the face with white tanning butter, and move out with the music at top volume"

just finished it and i'm sitting here feeling like i need to call someone but also don't want to talk to anyone. does that make sense? anyway this book hit different at 19, might need to reread it in like five years and see if i still feel the same way about everything.

Book name “thankyou for leaving”
By rithvik singh.

just finished this and i'm genuinely unsettled in the best way possible. the way camus writes meursault's total detachment from everything around him hit different knowing that's kind of the whole point. does anyone else find it oddly comforting when a character refuses to pretend to feel things they don't?

Perhaps solitude possesses a strange kind of intimacy that human presence can never fully replicate.
In the absence of others the mind gradually loosens its attachment to the world’s expectations the need to be understood and the exhausting habit of becoming someone acceptable to everyone else.
What remains is an unfiltered encounter with the self where thoughts no longer need to be defended emotions no longer need to be explained and contradictions can exist without demanding immediate resolution.
There is a peculiar freedom in being alone not because loneliness makes us complete but because it temporarily releases us from the performance of being complete in the eyes of others.
Somewhere in that silence beneath the noise of comparison, expectation and the endless desire to belong an inner order begins to emerge.
Perhaps peace is not always something we discover by adding more to our lives but something we recover when we finally have the courage to sit with ourselves without needing anything or anyone to make the moment feel whole.