Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Favourite Book Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week there is a new topic for bloggers to choose and list their top ten. This week’s theme is Top Ten Favourite Book Quotes.

When it comes down to it I could fill a book longer than the longest book I’ve ever read (and bearing in mind I’ve read four of the five A Song of Fire and Ice books so it would be quite long) with all my favourite book quotes. In order to narrow down to list I’ve picked my favourite quotes from some of my favourite books that I read or re-read last year (and even that was a struggle I will admit).

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A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
Check out my review here.

“I’d almost forgotten the true power of a story…how it lulled you outside your thoughts, let you process the world in a way that was palatable. Not poisonous.”

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The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
Check out my review here.

“You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive,” he said, “is to believe you always will.”

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A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
Check out my review here.

“Myths do not happen all at once.

They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words – to the memories – to keep them rolling on their own.

But all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.”

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Check out my review here.

“You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.

You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.”

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Check out my review here.

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, Starr,” she says. “It means you go on even though you’re scared. And you’re doing that.”

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The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Check out my review here.

“We have all the time in the world.” Love found a record. He laid it on the player. The music started again, scratchy from age, but so sweet and beautiful and deep.

Someday.

And there, in the darkness, Love and Death and the ones inside of them danced until the song was done.

And then, when all around them was silent and still, they disappeared.

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Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
Check out my review here.

“Tomorrow will be better.”

“But what if it’s not?” I asked.

“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”

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A Million Junes by Emily Henry
Check out my review here.

“I promise you. I promise you the stars. I promise you the lake and falls, coywolves and robins. I promise earth and heaven: I will love you long after the last human has taken his last breath. When the stars burn out and the oceans freeze over and the whole world is ash and dust and ice, our names will still be carved into this tree of life, side by side, and I’ll still be loving you.”

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They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Check out my review here.

“I cannot tell you how you will survive without me. I cannot tell you how to mourn me.  I cannot convince you to not feel guilty if you forget the anniversary of my death, or if you realize days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me. I just want you to live.”

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All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
Check out my review here.

“Do you have darkness inside you?”

“Yes,” Tony said.

“And do you want to be rid of it?”

This is a harder question to answer than one might think at first blush. Almost no one would think it’s correct to answer this question with a no, but the truth is that we men and women often hate to be rid of the familiar, and sometimes our darkness is the thing we know the best.

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So what do you think? Did you take part in this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, if so let me know what your favourite book quotes are.