Day 17 – Favourite quote(s) from your favourite book(s)

‘Then it hits you: from this vantage point, three hours ago you too were a dot like that, a speck of human life on a huge, hulking, weather-creating moun- tain that has little regard for it. (As a famous climber said, “Mountains don’t kill people. They just sit there.”) You feel appropriately small, almost insignifi- cant. You get a tiny, fractional glimpse of what God must see all the time.’ Prayer - Philip Yancey

‘He left the house, slamming the door after him, which nearly broke the fanlight; and I heard him fall over the scraper, which made me feel glad I hadn’t
removed it.  When he had gone, I thought of a splendid answer I ought to
have given him.  However, I will keep it for another occasion.’ The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith

‘And tell me, lion cub, who was the lady whom ye bore in your arms?’ Simon rose, and glanced from one to the other of them. For a moment he was silent, and then the glimmering of a smile came into his green-blue eyes. ‘That, my lord, is the lady whom I will one day take to wife, ’ he said deliberately.’ Simon the Coldheart - Georgette Heyer