Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together!
This week's topic: Things Characters Have Said
This is a hard one! There are so many bookish quotes and conversations I would love to include in this list, but it would take me an eternity to track them all down. I think I'll just go with the ten most recent quotes I used in reviews to make things easier on myself. 😅
One of my all time favorite quotes doesn't make sense without context, but I'll share it anyway: "Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty..." It's from Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews and I DIED laughing when I read it!
1) Attached at the Hip by Christine Riccio
“When you turn something into your job, you have to start looking at it more critically. I want opening a book to always feel like coming home.”
2) The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
"But maybe that's what we all are—halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges."
3) Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
“Some, I can tell, even find it exciting. As if it were a game, all this murder.”
4) Lights Out by Navessa Allen
“I thought we could spend some quality time together as a family. You, me. Our maladjusted son who just scooted his butt across the carpet behind you.”
5) The Change by Kirsten Miller
"'But the truth is, Mrs. Rocca -- and I suspect deep down, you know this -- every recipe is a spell. And all cooks are witches.'"
6) Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews
"One doesn't let her fiancé fight a hoard of ghouls by himself. Some things were just not done."
7) Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
"Cadie longed to be found, but even more, she ached to be lost."
8) All Eyes On Her by L.E. Flynn
"Because somewhere along the line, we decided to equate quiet with good, which means loud became bad by default."
9) Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It's sacred.”
10) Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
"If she was a firecracker, spreading light across the sky, I'm a lit match, going dark before doing much of anything at all."
