In honor of Simon & Schuster’s centennial anniversary, they have released a list of 100 titles that best represent the depth of their publications. Here are some of the most beautiful quotes that have captivated readers.
- “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . .And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
—The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - “Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?”
“Yes. I want to ruin you.”
“Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms - Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, “If you had to betray your master, would you do it?”
Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, “No, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ - “Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. “I’m coming back some day,” they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News - “Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you’ll still have your stars.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle - “Indeed, cancer’s emergence in the world is the product of a double negative: it becomes common only when all other killers themselves have been killed.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies - “It stays with me, a bruise in the memory that hurts when I touch it.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing - “Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t. And not after either.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove - “Mom didn’t get better. But I will.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died
You can see their list here: Simon & Schuster Celebrating 100 Years
