Weekly meme hosted by Broke and Bookish.
November 17: Top Ten Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year Or So
“I am haunted by humans.”
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
– All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
“Sometimes we get so sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We would like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”
– The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
“We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
– Every Day by David Levithan
“What is an “instant” death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green
