Any book. And if you can remember, tell us how long you’ve held those words in memory.

Do tell us the name of the book, too.

If you go and check your quote after you post, and find you misremembered, please post a corrected version, but don’t change your original post. Leave it the way you remembered it.

Topics: reading, books, quotations, memory, first words, last words, Manderley, Sydney Carton