So, I thought it would be fun to enter this quirky quote contest, since I'm so full of it and all. I can enter twice, but I primarily want to enter one of my favorite literary quotes of all times. This angst-ridden quote made me laugh out loud when I first read it, and though he's often quite a snot, I have deep admiration for Holden Caulfield. For more fun quotes, check out the contest at An Open Book.
"Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
~ J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Posted by Amanda at 11:26 PM
I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand,
hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand,
hardly anything could be more important.
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows,
but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are
you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,
of these stories of who we are and where we have come from
and the people we have met along the way
because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity,
as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known
to each of us most powerfully and personally.
-- Frederick Buechner
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What a perfect contest for you ... and great quote. Hope you win!
That's a good quote, too. One of the most depressing things to me is how people come out for funerals, when they never had time during hte person's life (I am guilty of this too)
I came here via your comment on my blog and was very excited to see on your profile that one of your favorite movies is So I Married an Axe Murderer. That is one of my favorites, but hardly anyone I know has seen it!