Top Ten Tuesday - Citações Favoritas

Já há algum tempo que vejo esta rubrica em alguns sites nacionais e internacionais e por várias vezes estive quase para participar... Esta semana vi o tema no Cuidado com o Dálmata e não resisti...
 
Top Ten Tuesday é uma rubrica original do site The Broke and the Bookish, na qual, cada semana, nos é dado um tema para o qual devemos fazer uma lista.

O tema desta semana é Citações Favoritas. Ora, não se pode dizer que seja propriamente fã de citações, mas há alguns livros cujas frases me marcaram... Assim, aqui fica o meu top 10 de citações favoritas (até agora, claro!).

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10. “There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven 

Embora não tivesse achado o livro nada de especial, achei algumas citações bastante memoráveis. E acho esta uma grande verdade...

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 9. “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

 Mais uma grande verdade...

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8. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

É a frase inicial do livro e, de tão simples, é completamente memorável! Principalmente porque nos deixa com a dúvida (que só é desvendada no final) de porque é que ela nunca mais voltou a Manderley.

7. “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna: A Novel

 Não é o meu livro favorito de Isabel Allende, mas gosto bastante desta citação.

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6. "You gave to much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

 Mais certainement, non? Não podia deixar de citar o meu detective preferido.

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5. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 

Podia ter escolhido muitas citações deste livro, mas como disse o mesmo tantas vezes (quando tiver uma casa, vou ter muitas prateleiras e enchê-las de livros!), esta acabou por ser a escolhida.

4. “I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

Mais um livro do qual foi difícil escolher apenas uma citação. Acabei por escolher uma com que também me identifico bastante...

 

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3. “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Ai, ai, quando a Jane finalmente explode e volta a ser a Jane que era antes de ir para o colégio... Adorei. E adorei esta cena também.

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2. “Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

1. “Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

O que dizer? A história de amor destes dois é memorável. E arranca-me suspiros sempre que leio estas citações.