My love of reading was one of the reasons I set up the site, and underneath are my favourite literary quotes, as well as some of my own reviews, analysis on some of my favourite novels and writers and even the odd quiz. You’ll find my own creative writing here, and please feel free to offer your thoughts. And no, that isn’t my bookcase, just in case you were wondering!
A-Z Reading Challenge
The Alchemist
Alice in Wonderland
Alone
An Ideal Husband
Animal Farm
Animal Magic Review
James Baldwin
Beautiful Libraries
Before the Embryo Piece
Brendan Behan
The Bertrams
Blogger Interview
Best Short Story Writers
Black/White Adaptations from Plays
Book Spine Story
Brave New World
Cannery Row
Calvin and Hobbes
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
A Christmas Carol
Cicero
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Colour Adaptations from Plays
A Confederacy of Dunces
Coraline
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Crucible
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dear No One
Death’s Domain: A Discman Mapp
Devil’s Dictionary
Devil’s Dictionary
Diary of a Young Girl
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Do not go Gentle into that good Night
The Doors of Perception
Dreamers
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
The Duchess of Malfi
The Fault in our Stars
Zelda Fitzgerald
For the Fallen
Freakomonics
Funeral Blues
Funny Language Cartoon
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Go-Between
The Goldfinch
Hamlet
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Henry James
How do I Love Thee
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared
I Believe
I Loved You
If
Illusions, Delusions
The Inside Out Book Tag
Invictus
The Iron Giant
Kafka on the Shore
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lies and Secrets
A Life in the Day Piece
Literature Cartoon
Lolita
Long After Midnight
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
Macbeth
The Men Running Past
The Midnight Library
John Milton
Molly’s Game
Monsters Under your Bed
The More Loving One
The Narrow Way
New Writing Website
The New York Trilogy
The Night Circus
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Norwegian Wood
Ode to a Nightengale
The Old Man and the Sea
On the Road
The Old Astronomer
Paradise Lost
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Terry Pratchett
The Prince
Problems
Promotional Interview
Punbelievable
The Raven
Reader Problem Tags
Remember
The Road not taken
Romeo and Juliet
Sea Fever
The Secret History (review)
The Secret History
Shakespeare Film Adaptations
She Walks in Beauty
Short Story Adaptations
Short Story and Sports Book Photograph
Sign of Four
The Silver Sword
The Soldier
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Solomon Grundy
Sonnet 18
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Summer of Madness
Sweet Silver Blues
Tale of Two Cities
A Telephone Call
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Things they Carried (Review)
The Things they Carried
The Third Man
Three Men in a Boat
Chidiock Tichborne
To Autumn
Tom’s Midnight Garden
The Trial
Mark Twain
Twelfth Night
The Twilight Man
Two Sentence Horror
The Tyger
The Wasp Factory
Watchmen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
When you are Old
Oscar Wilde: Funniest Quotes
Oscar Wilde: Most Philosophical/Inspirational Quotes
The Wind in the Willows
Worstward Ho
Wuthering Heights
Alex Raphael 
great lines 🙂
Had you heard many of them before?
yes…most of the one’s I have liked 🙂
I’m sure you have plenty of great ones I’ve never even heard of. I’ll have to raid your site for some 😉
haha..well some of the quotes I have put up.
What? No Harry Potter yet? Haha!
I know I know. I’ve read them all. I still haven’t decided which quote. Maybe the one about standing up for your friends is as hard as your enemies. Maybe the opening line. Or about Snape? Any ideas?
Oh geez, it’s hard to pick just one, haha. But I think the ones that stand out for me are Dumbledore’s quote about happiness being found in the darkest of times, or his quote about not dwelling on dreams and forgetting to live. But there’s so many great ones.
Nice choices. Oddly I love the one when Harry asks Dumbledore what he sees when he looks in the Mirror or Erised. And Dumbledore answers about socks, and Harry works out that Dumbledore is politely telling him to mind his own business. That line always stood out but I need to find it exactly first.
Good one too! Dumbledore has some of the best quotes throughout the series.
You do know the one? No one else ever mentions it but it has that cute sensitivity that sums up both characters nicely. I want to reread them from the start.
Yeah, I vaguely remember it, since it’s been a while I read the book. But I remember his answer did somewhat confuse me like Harry. It wasn’t included in the film, so I think that’s another reason why it didn’t really stick with me.
And favourite of the seven?
Probably Prisoner of Azkaban since it’s the one that kept me on the edge of my seat the most. With the films, I also want to say PoA, but I sort of have a bias for Order of the Phoenix, which I want to write about in a post one day. 😉 Yours?
The Prisoner of Azkaban. It introduced Sirius and Lupin, two of my favourite characters. It really kicked on from the previous two books too.
See if you can recognise these two images without looking at the description or comments beneath 😉
https://alexraphael.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/travel-snapshot-harry-potter-studios/
https://alexraphael.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/travel-snapshot-the-big-room-harry-potter-studios-watford/
First one is Hagrid’s Hut (I see Fang, haha) and the second one is the Ministry of Magic? I swear I didn’t look, lol!
Nice one Brittany 🙂
I try, lol! 🙂 I should mention (I wanted to write a post about this down the road too) but when I studied abroad, I interned at Leavesden Studios when the 5th HP movie was being filmed. So, the statue looked liked it would be in the Ministry from what I remember in art department, lol. 🙂
That must have been awesome 🙂 I am a bit envious ha.
Haha! Yeah, it was an amazing, once in a lifetime experience. I’d still love to go back and do the tour so I can have photos. We weren’t allowed to take any.
I was wondering IF that was YOUR bookcase! Wouldn’t that be wonderful?!!! If I could only remember the site, I would send it on to you…beautiful ideas of how to store one’s books (of course, then I would be spending the dollars on the structure and not books! Choices …choices!).
Great selection that you have here!
Ha! The “problem” is that there really are so many great books out there.
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These are some wonderful quotes you have picked to go with these wonderful books you have read. It’s great to see some of my favourite novels on here too. ☺
Thank you. You are always welcome to suggest some.
Wonderful collection. Lots of gems thete
Thank you 🙂
You’re welcome