Favorite Book Quotes

Hello! It’s Tuesday again, which means it’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday. This week, we’re talking about our favorite book quotes. Quotes are a popular topic, and if you want to see some of my other book quote topics, I previously posted about Extraordinary Book Quotes (from October 2019) and Book Quotes that Move Me (from April 2019). Even though we’ve done similar topics before, we’re always reading new books and coming up with some new, amazing quotes. One of the quotes I’m choosing this week are from books that aren’t even out yet (and one comes out today), and all of these quotes are ones we haven’t looked at before. Let’s look at today’s quotes!

“It was a good story, right?” he said. “Our story, I mean.”
“The best.”

“Inertia,” taken from The End and Other Beginnings, p. 38

I can’t believe I never used this in one of our quote TTTs before. These two lines almost always make me tear up. The story is about a girl and her former best friend, who is dying. They believe they are having their last conversation ever.

They escalate their demands. You first shoot a war criminal in the back. And then they tell you to kill a soldier who is innocent. And then they tell you to kill a civilian, and then a young girl. And you realize if you keep agreeing, it will keep spiraling down, down, down, until you’ve killed your own soul.

Skyhunter, ~Marie Lu, p. 206

I love how this quote talks about how the descent into evil can be slow. It’s not just applicable to war.

What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue ARC, ~VE Schwab, loc. 52

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is about a girl who, wanting a better life than the simple one in the village destinly has laid out for her, makes a deal with a god that causes her to live forever. The only problem is, nobody can remember her. I’m only 10% of the way through this book so far, so I’m sure there will be plenty of other great quotes in this book by the time I’m done (I’ve already highlighted several).

Life is funny, though; the most romantic moment of my life, and I’m at the top of a Ferris Wheel with a yearbook instead of the boy who wrote in it that he’s in love with me.

Today Tonight Tomorrow ARC, ~Rachel Lynn Solomon, loc. 3062

Anyone can be a saint until they’re hungry enough.

Sky Without Stars, ~Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell, p. 5

Chatine is one of the main characters in Sky Without Stars, and she grows up starving; in response, she turns to the criminal underworld her parents live in. She’s a sympathetic character because even though she does wrong, she does so out of desperation.

We live on through those who loved us.

Sparrow ARC, ~Mary Cecilia Jackson, p. 328

I don’t get the chance to talk about this book much, but going through this book of quotes, I came across this, and thought it was lovely.

the most worthy people are often the least likely to say so.

Broken Throne, ~Victoria Aveyard, p. 367

Doesn’t that always seem to be true?

“I’m smarter than you,” said Julian. “But I wouldn’t give myself big props. So is sawdust.”

Queen of Air and Darkness, ~Cassandra Clare, p. 161

I can’t remember who Julian was speaking to, but I thought this quote was funny.

“Oh, but what about all the exposure?” People die from exposure, don’t try using that line on me.

Don’t Read the Comments ARC, ~Eric Smith, loc. 2079

I’m sure a lot of writers and artists can identify with this comment.

She couldn’t make this boy fall in love with her. She couldn’t break his heart. Because if she did, it was her, not him, who was the beast.

Of Curses and Kisses, ~Sandhya Menon, p. 201

Of Curses and Kisses is a Beauty and the Beast retelling, so I loved how they worked this line in here.

What about you? Do you have any book quotes you really like? Let me know. Next week we’re going to talk about book covers with fall colors and vibes (although my southern hemisphere friends will be dreaming of spring).