Tuesday, November 17, 2015

top ten tuesday: quotable moments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish! This week's theme is: "November 17: Top Ten Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year Or So." I absolutely love this theme, though it makes people crazy, I'm constantly marking in my books. I love words and the way they come together to make people feel something, so I go a little bit crazy over quotes!


1. "People think people are in charge, but they're wrong, it's the trees." – Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun 


2. She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph.– Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows 

3. “In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”– Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You 


4.  "'We women are a sad lot, aren't we?' 
 'What do you mean?' 
'Strong enough to take on the world with our bare hands, yet we permit ridiculous boys to make fools of us.'" – Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn 

5.  “If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the Vicious 
couch, and decided he could live with that.” –V.E. Schwab,

6. "Dear Isabel, A quick note: I don't think a vivid imagination is all it's cracked up to be. I'm quite certain you have one, but if not, thank the gods of born-with-gifts and move on. However, if you're cursed as I am with a love of storytelling and adventures in galaxies far far away, and mythical creatures from fictional lands who are more real to you than actual people with blood and bones – which is to say, people who exist– well, let me be the first to pass on my condolences. Because life is rarely what you imagine it would be." – David Arnold, Mosquitoland 

7. "Mathematics or fate: Whatever that force is that keeps bringing us together in world after world, it's powerful. Undeniable. But I still don't know whether that force means my salvation or my destruction." – Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You 

8. Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other's bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright, we could see nothing else but the other." – Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles  

9. “People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it's a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.” – Becky Albertalli, Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda

10. “You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”– Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes



what are your quotes this week?
xx
Sunny




17 comments:

  1. I LOVE your picks - especially I'll Give You The Sun and Vicious. I need to reread them both - especially Vicious - love me some Eli and Victor ;)

    My TTT- http://rachelwritesthings.blogspot.com/2015/11/top-ten-quotes-i-loved-from-books-i.html

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    1. oh gosh, those two books, for such different reasons, are some of my favorites!! I know what you mean about Eli and Victor... those boys.... hahaha thanks for stopping by!

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  2. Great quotes especially #9.
    My TTT-
    http://readingalcove.blogspot.in/2015/11/top-ten-tuesday-2.html?m=1

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    1. #9 is a personal favorite of mine! thank you so much for your comment :)

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  3. ALL OF THE QUOTES, I love all of these! I really need to read I'll Give you the Sun, it sounds so good. I love the quote you picked from The Wrath and the Dawn, it actually makes me want to read the book now! :D

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    1. Oh my god I'll Give You the Sun is actually life changing, I would suggest it over just about anything :) The Wrath and the Dawn is incredibly beautifully written!

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  4. Great selection of quotes! I have Vicious on my TBR queue, I think I'm going to have to bump it up a bit :)

    My TTT

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    1. yes I love Vicious, it is really an interesting concept! thank you for stopping by!

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  5. Great choices! I could have used every sentence from I'll Give You the Sun for this post, Nelson's writing is out of this world. I've seen lots of her quotes today and it's making my itch to reread her novels! I also loved the quote from A Thousand Pieces of You, I will have to move that one up on my TBR!
    Thanks for stopping by the The Local Muse

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  6. So many good ones! This is making me seriously want to go back and re-read most of my books and start collecting quotes (I never wrote/documented them until recently) because they are so so beautiful! Loved An Ember in the Ashes, Simon, I'll Give You the Sun ones and oh yeah Queen of Shadows! My Top Ten

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  7. Love that quote from Mosquitoland -- I really want to read that one! Great picks!

    my TTT

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  8. The Wrath and the Dawn quote makes me want to read the book so bad! I need to pick it up before the end of the year, for sure. Nice list!

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  9. OMG Song of Achilles is such a gorgeous book! I really want to re-read that one soon!

    Here are my Top Ten!

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  10. Great list! :D so many books on here I still want to read!
    Caroline @ Just Another Bookish Blog

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  11. Absolutely love your list! My favorite quotes from it is the Simon vs. the Home Sapiens Agenda and The Wrath and the Dawn, even though I still haven't read the latter.

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  12. I haven't read a single book in your list but I especially liked quotes 3, 6 and 8 :) The 'Throne of Glass' series is also on my TBR list.

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