Favourite Quotes From the Last Five Books I Read

I have always enjoyed reading book quotes, so I decided that for 2019 I will share my favourite quotes for every five books that I read! These are quotes that stood out to me, but will in no way spoil the book for you.  I hope they give you a sense of what the book is about and the writing style!

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

“I didn’t then like the thought of my own bones, waiting inside me for their own eventual exposure.”

“Lights blind you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.”

“Who are the ghosts again, us or our dead? Maybe they imagined us first, maybe we were conjured out of the deep past by other minds.”

Columbine by Dave Cullen

“The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”

“Ten years on a massacre can be tough on the soul.”

“I don’t want anyone else to understand it, because you only understand it when you have been welcomed into a club only the saddest people can enter. The cost of admission is the death of your loved one at the hands of someone else.”

“identifying outcasts as threats is not healthy. It demonizes innocent kids who are already struggling. It is also unproductive. Oddballs are not the problem. They do not fit the profile. There is no profile.”

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

“Most of those who know the story of the rings in the trees are dead by now. The iron is still there. Rusty. Deep in the heartwood. Testifying to anyone who cares to listen.”

“It came from outside,a rush and a whoosh without variation.  Forbidding and mechanical and granting no clue to its origin.  He didn’t know which book he’d picked it up from, but the word came to him: torrential.”

“On visiting day, he told her he was okay but sad, it was difficult but he was hanging in there, when all he wanted to say was, Look at what they did to me, look at what they did to me.”

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”

“Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”

Normal People by Sally Rooney

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”

“It’s funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we’re at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”