A Book Passage A Day

[IanP2303]

This thread is inspired by @brokenclay's A Poem A Day thread, I am looking for methods to practice my handwriting and also help others who are trying to find good passages to copy as practice. Please comment one of your favourite boom passages or any book passage you like! Here's one passage I really like:

 

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way , not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear." 

                                             

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       - Stephen King

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Different seasons                      

[IanP2303]

"We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance wit our desires-we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do no succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us beyond it, and then if we turn round to gaze into the distance of the past, we can barely use it, so imperceptible has it become."

 

                                                                                                                                                                 - Marcel Proust

                                                                                                                                                                    In Search of Lost Time