Each week The Broke and the Bookish host this fantastic weekly feature that poses different bookish questions.
This weeks topic? Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes!
One of the harder topics I think. I’m not usually one for marking down my favorite passages, but now I’m thinking I should be. Some of these are hilarious and others are ones that have brought me to tears. I hope you enjoy!
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1. “A plate of Oreo cookies sat in front of him and he slowly brought one to his mouth and took a bite. I swear I heard the Oreo scream faintly as his teeth sank in.” (p. 174, The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander ARC) – Hilarious. This is one of the most side splitting middle grade novels ever and this is by far my favorite scene.
2. The bird has gone off on some tune. Short, unsustained notes – more like questions than songs. The rustling of its feathers is like the sound of a hand cupped to an ear – that space between the hand and the ear, where the heartbeat echos.
Lift.
Drag.
Thrust.
Gravity.
The mechanics, Katherine reminds herself, of flight.
Yes, she has it right: Lift. Drag. Thrust. Gravity. It will be over soon. (p. 38-39 Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart, ARC) – Even with almost two years since first having read this gorgeous book I still tear up while reading this quote. It speaks to everything I love about Beth’s writing and the situation itself is more meaningful to me personally than I can really express.
3. From The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Because there are too many I love to narrow it down.):
- “Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.“
- “We are the choices we make.“
- “The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.
About anything.
‘Need a poo, Todd.’
‘Shutup, Manchee.’
‘Poo. Poo, Todd.’
“I said shut it.”
4. From A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Again, because there are too many good quotes to pick just one.):
- “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
- “You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
- “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
5. “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” (Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)
6. “I checked with Liza to see how life as a mysterious woman was going. Not well. She’d gone on a date, didn’t tell anyone, and then when nobody called to see how it went, she was depressed. ‘Now I feel like nobody cares about me,’ she said. I welcomed her to my world.” (It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me by Ariel Leve p. 64) – I love this book. It’s one of those that’s broken into little smaller stories that you can pick up whenever you need a good laugh. LOVED. It.
7. posterity, n.
I try not to think about us growing old together, mostly because I try not to think about us growing old at all. Both things – the years passing, the years together – are too enormous to contemplate. But one morning I gave in. You were asleep, and I imagined you getting older and older. Your hair graying, your skin folded and creased, your breath catching. And I found myself thinking: If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. Your memories will be my most lasting impression. (p. 161, The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan) – Gorgeous. Doesn’t it have you thinking about how people remember you? It does for me and the entire book is full of little moments like this.
8. “Ice cream! Get your cold ice cream for a hot day!” (Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems) – We read this book daily. Seriously. One of the best parts is that now that we’ve read it so many times we now substitute the words “Ice Cream” for something else ridiculously hilarious like “grandmas” or “tvs”. We all can’t help but crack up through the entire book that way.
9. “It all began when Floyd’s kite became stuck in a tree. He tried pulling and swinging, but it wouldn’t come UNSTUCK…Floyd fetched a ladder. He was going to sort this out once and for all…and up he threw it. I’m sure you can guess what happened.” (Stuck by Oliver Jeffers) – A book about a boy who throws things into the tree to get his kite down instead of climbing up it and pulling it down. Genius.
10. “You shouldn’t bite your friends,” said Tilly. “It’s not nice.” … “Mmm,” said Doodle. “BITEY! BITEY!” (Doodle Bites by Polly Dunbar) – What’s better than an alligator going “Bitey! Bitey!”? It’s hilarious!
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Now, your turn! Do you have a favorite quote? I’d love to hear about it!
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