Emily told me to share my top ten most influential books. It has proven harder than I originally thought it would be... but I do believe I have come up with my final list. It is as follows: 1. Harry Potter (THE WHOLE SERIES!) It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. “If you want to know what a mans like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” “Were all human, arent we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” 2.To Kill a Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” “Atticus said to Jem one day, I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. Your father’s right, she said. Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” 3. Little House on the Prairie books (whole series) “Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.” 4. Screwtape Letters “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.” “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” 5.Comforts from the Cross When you wonder if your life will ever change, He wants you to remember that He is coming back and that this life as it is wont last forever. 6. The Bible. Philippians 1:21 For me to Live is Christ and to die is gain. 7. Indigos Star “You cant be disgusting to people just because they annoy you! she exclaimed very crossly. Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! . . . You have to put up with them.” 8. Animal Farm “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” 9. Ramona Quimby Books (Whole Series) “She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.” “Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.” 10. The Quilt Story So her mother rocked her, as mothers do. Then tucked her in. And Abigail felt at home again, under the quilt.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:02:34 +0000
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