ASMR | My Favorite Book Quotes 🌻 Reading • Tapping • Soft-Spoken • Page Turning

In which I talk about my favorite book quotes! Some of them are cheesy, some of them might only mean something if you've read the book... but here are the quotes that have really stuck with me.

(Also yes, I pronounce several names wrong in this LOL sorry "Anne" Rand. 😝

Until next time! 🌸

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[alexvisser]

The opening line to Anna Karenina, the greatest novel ever written: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

[Freelancer]

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more" - Jane Austen, Emma

[snowingonolympus]

“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn't have. I wouldn't have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.” -- Daisy Jones & The Six

[AwesTex]

I have two from The Lord of the Rings:

“I wish it need not have happened in my time, ” said Frodo.
“So do I, ” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

[johnharper]

“In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That is as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

-Pat Rothfuss, ‘The Wise Man’s Fear’

Of the thousands of passages I’ve read, it’s probably my favorite. Love your stuff, thanks for all the effort you go to!

[romae.]

“Of course it’s happening inside your head, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?” -Albus Dumbledore

[abigailrommel]

I read The Song of Achilles based on your recommendation, read it all the way through in one sitting, and cried at the end. Love your book content!! Would love to hear more!! 🤍

[___neil]

“and now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” Glad you mentioned this one. When I read this my first time through East of Eden i was flooded with the sort of emotion you feel when something profoundly meaningful is said. I guess it sounds sort of counterintuitive at first, but allowing for (even expecting) failure/imperfection in yourself and others truly is the path to goodness. For whatever reason (and maybe we’re not meant to know), when people strive for perfection and inevitably fall short, they generally dissipate into despair, or compensate by finding fault in others. Both are counter-productive if your desire is for life-affirming goodness. I couldn’t imagine my life without people who have made space for my failures and my ugliness. There is something so profound about forgiveness, graciousness, empathy. They are at the root of love and even goodness itself. Idk if I’ve just ranted in circles but had to say something, those few little words mean so much.

[Danoriel]

This was a really good idea for asmr content actually, good quotes all around. 😊

[abesapien]

A video on your favorite classics is a great idea. I really enjoy hearing your thoughts on books.

[lenatpn]

"Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the lights.” -Albus Dumbledore

[ircjesselee]

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
-Edgar Allan Poe

[JuIietaASMR]

“Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good” ✨ I see this quote from a religion perspective. I grew up catholic so I was always told we couldn’t do this or that, and I always thought I was a “bad” catholic. But now I’m OK with being an imperfect one and just focus on being good. Good to others, good to animals, good to the environment and good to myself ❤️

[KOASMR]

I got so many tingles with the page turning. ❣️☺️

[ASMRconNoa]

This is perfect for a rainy night, I'll enjoy it so much! 💖

[aqtbenz]

I love your bookish asmr videos, thanks for another great one! I would love to see your favorite classics and your favorite YA novels! ❤️📚📚

[Lari_A]

A very short and simple one from a book with so many good quotes: “So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” - Perks of being a wallflower. Not to mention “we accept the love we think we deserve”, which I’m going to get tattooed, definitely.

[jasondodds]

I literally clapped out loud sat alone in my flat when you said east of eden hahahha ❤️
I have two quotes from East of Eden.... it was the first book i picked up as an adult to read for fun. Had the corners of a couple pages turned in.

"Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair"

"Caleb and Aaron - now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to he dammed"

Peace x

[CatastrophicDisease]

I was hoping to see East of Eden here and was not disappointed. It just cannot be understated how profound that book is - it literally changed my life. It sounds like the second and third lines you read are from the short chapter that comes in right after Tom Hamilton writes a letter to his mother (I’m being cryptic to not give spoilers). That chapter hits me like a punch in the gut given what happens right before.

[brittm]

“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain. It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.” -Cassandra Clare 🥰