Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. “It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.” I am so excited about this weeks topic! I always love having an excuse to share quotes that I love!
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin
“I should no longer want to be consumed by the sun when I could bask safely in the glow of the moon.”
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
“Women were still strange and inscrutable creatures. Men didn’t understand them. And women didn’t understand themselves either. It was always a performance of some sort. Everywhere you went, it was like there was a spotlight shining down on your head. You were on a stage when you were on the trolley. You were being judged and judged and judged. Every minute of your performance was supposed to be incredible and outstanding and sexy.
You were often only an ethical question away from being a prostitute.”
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
“Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.”
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
“To love someone is like moving into a house,” Sonja used to say. “At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one’s own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That’s it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
The Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
I could go on and on sharing my favourite quotes!! I have a journal that is filled with my favourite passages from books. I would love to know what your favourite quote!
I remember reading The Thirteenth Tale and loving the writing, Setterfield is very quoteworthy!
Another book related quote I like is from The Shadow of the Wind:
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
Book quotes about books are one of my favourite things! That is such a beautiful one. Thanks for sharing it with me Richard!
All of these quotes are so good! I love the one from Wild Beauty, and that cover is so gorgeous! I’m going to go add it to my wishlist 🙂
My TTT.
Thank you! I could quote the entire book!! Wild Beauty is so amazing. I think you’ll love it!
LOVE your picks! My interest only heightens every time I come across anything on The Queen of Hearts, Wild Beauty, and Seven Husbands—lovely quotes 🙂
Thank you! Those are three books I truly think you will love- especially Seven Husbands! So good!!
This is what everyone keeps telling me lol, I’m going to have to pick a month to read as many BOTM books as possible and Seven Husbands will be 1st 🙂
Great selection, Kristin! To be honest I think the entire book of Burial Rites is quotable, the writing is just so lyrical and atmospheric <3
Thank you! You are so right about Burial Rites. The way Hannah Kent writes is truly magical!
All of these quotes are really good! The Lonely Hearts Hotel quotes caught my eye, I’m interested in reading it now 🙂
Thank you! It is a really powerful story! I loved that the main character was a bit of a feminist!
Wow, all of these are lovely. I’ll Give You the Sun and Wild Beauty are both so beautifully written, I can’t count the amount of tabs I put in them. I have a journal full of favorite quotes too, but none delight me as much as this one: “Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.” – Catherynne M. Valente
I really could have done a post just featuring quotes from I’ll Give You the Sun and Wild Beauty! Ah I love that quote! Adding it to my journal for sure!
That Lonely Hearts Hotel quote is on point. I love it. I’ve also not heard of that book before so I’ll have to look into it. I adore I’ll Give You the Sun. I just remember getting all the feels when I read that book. 😀
There are so many quotes likes that in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. I highly recommend it!!
That Wild Beauty one is such perfection. But all your picks are simply wonderful! <3
Thank you! Wild Beauty is so quotable!
These are all lovely quotes, Kristin! The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is on my TBR. It sounds like an intriguing read!
Thank you! It is beyond amazing! You are going to love it!
This quote in The Queen of Hearts was my favorite out of book. I loved it!! 💕
Me too! It really stood out to me and I just had to share it!
Beautiful quotes! Esp. The Lonely Hearts Hotel one ! AMAZING book 🙂
Thank you!! I’m so happy you loved that book too. I still think about it!
OH beautiful quotes, I love your choices here <3 That quote from I'll Give You The Sun is one of my favorites <3 I also really need to read Wild Beauty, that quote you shared here is lovely 🙂 x
I’ll Give You the Sun is so quotable!! I think you will love Wild Beauty!
I liked To Kill a Mockingbird and I’ll Give You the Sun!!
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Me too! So many good quotes!