Hi anon! 🤍
Oh! I love these questions so much. Actually, I have a few favourite books, and I always reread them. For instance, MDZS, TGCF, ERHA, QJJ, TBFYL. But if I had to choose a book with a quote that hit me hard and has stayed with me for a very long time, I’d choose this from Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things:
“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less.
That's what careless words do.
They make people love you a little less.”
I love this quote because there’s something so important and raw about it. It teaches something valuable about bonds. It’s true that once harsh words leave us, they cannot be taken back. They have already reached the ears of people and hurt them. When I read this book, I was very young. But there were things in it that I’ve carried with me for a very long time. So much that, even when I’m upset, angry or I want to fight because someone hurt me, I think a few times before saying something because the last thing I want is hurting someone. Sorry for oversharing anon.
But yes, another quote I like from this book is:
“History repeats itself.”
It repeats itself only if we allow it to. It does only if we don’t fight against something. And if we allow it to repeat itself, we’re stuck in a cycle we are not brave enough to fight against. So it will keep repeating only because of us.