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!

Lanny by Max Porter

“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?”

“And she laughed, and said she understood, and then off she drifted in that nice way she has. Responsive to the light, I would call it. The type of person who is that little bit more akin to the weather than most people, more obviously made of the same atoms as the earth than most people these days seem to be. Which explains Lanny.”

‘’You cannot fix the way the world is broken all on your own.’’

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

“Of course it was Loki. It’s always Loki.”

“The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them.”

“That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most.”

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

“It contained Nina’s favorite saying: You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

“Do you know the best feeling in the world?” “Uh…” Nina shook her head, despite having some ideas. Liz glowed. “It’s reading a book, loving every second of it, then turning to the front and discovering that the writer wrote fourteen zillion others.”

“If you’re not scared, you’re not brave.”

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”

“but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”

“She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.”

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”

“But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.”

“He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he was experiencing one now.”

Have you read any of these books? I would love to know if any of the quotes resonated with you!