May 08, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Favorite Quotes From Books

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. It was created due to their love of lists.

This weeks topic is:

Top Ten Favorite Quotes From Books

1. "I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."

-"Delirium" by Lauren Oliver

2. "The last thing I felt like doing was taking a stroll in the dark with zombies on every side of me."

-Pg. 75 of "Dearly, Departed" by Lia Habel

3. "I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say."

-Pg. 399 of "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

4. "Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word nor bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side."

-"Delirium" by Lauren Oliver

5. "You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything. . .affects everything."

-"Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

6. "I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along."

-Pg. 400 of "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

7. "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

-"Anna and the French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins

8. "It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the things you do with it. You are beautiful."

-"The Host" by Stephenie Meyer

9. "Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

-"Daughter of Smoke & Bone" by Laini Taylor

10. "His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. 

In seventeen years no one has said my name like that."

-Pg. 24 of "Shatter Me" by Tahereh Mafi