Top Ten Tuesday | Favorite Book Quotes

April 30, 2019March 22, 2019 meltotheanyAside20 Comments

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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!

If you know me at all, you know I am such a quote searcher. Lyrical prose is probably my favorite element of reading! So when I saw that this week’s topic was wanting us to showcase some of our favorite quotes, I knew I had to participate! And I hope you all enjoy! (PS – I am very aware that I’m sappy & a hopeless romantic!) 💕

➽ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

➽ Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn’t fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”

➽ J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

➽ Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“That’s the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”

➽ Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”

➽ V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”

➽ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

➽ Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

➽ Elliot Wake, Black Iris

“I wouldn’t have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts.”

➽ Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you’re not careful it will drown you.”

Ah, my heart! All ten of these mean the world to me. And it was actually really hard to narrow down if I’m being honest. But please, let me know your favorite quote and the book it is from! Also, friendly reminder, while you are reading this: I am in Hawaii, so if I’m slow writing back and/or seeing your favorite quotes, I promise to fix that when I get home! I hope you all are having the happiest of reading! 💖

My Favorite Book Quotes of 2018

December 16, 2018December 12, 2018 meltotheanyAside45 Comments

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This Autumn, my dear friend Imi asked me to write up a post including my favorite quotes of 2018! And like, on top of the fact that I love her, what an amazing blog post idea! Lyrical writing is my favorite thing in literature, and nothing makes me happier than reading passages that give me full body goosebumps! So, here are my ten favorite quotes of 2018, that still leave me completely and utterly speechless! 💛✨

➽ 10.) Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices #3) by Cassandra Clare

“I love you. I love you. I love you.”

➽ 9.) Skyward (Skyward, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

“You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”

➽ 8.) The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner

“If you want to know the history of a town, read the gravestones in its cemetery”

➽ 7.) Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton

“I fell in love with the forest. And the forest loved me back. And so we traded hearts. Mine is here, larger and stronger than it could have been in the small cavern of my body”

➽ 6.) Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

“Because there was nothing in a girl’s history that might negate her right to choose what happens to her body.”

➽ 5.) Sadie by Courtney Summers

“I stood over her crib and listened to her breathing, watching the rise and fall of her tiny chest. I pressed my palm against it and felt myself through her. She was breathing, alive. And I was too.”

➽ 4.) Circe by Madeline Miller

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”

➽ 3.) Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

“Even girls made of stars are captives, bound at the wrists and traded like property. Even girls made of stars aren’t asked, aren’t believed, aren’t considered worth the effort unless they can offer something in return. Even girls made of stars buy into those lies sometimes.”

➽ 2.) The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air #1.5) by Holly Black

“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through deserts or sleep in ashes or make homes for transformed brothers in the woods. Girls without hands, without eyes, without the power of speech, without any power at all. But then a prince rides up and sees the girl and finds her beautiful. Beautiful, not despite her suffering, but because of it.”

➽ 1.) The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

“If he looked in my eyes straight on, he would know how he’d pierced me with an arrow, how its shaft was still sticking out of my chest, twitching each time my heart contracted. And maybe he’d see how my mother had sliced up everything else.”

Top Ten Tuesday | Favorite Book Quotes

March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 meltotheanyAside42 Comments

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!

Okay, first and foremost, this T10T prompt is perfect for me. I have always been such a quote lover! Even from a young age, I was always writing down my favorite lines from books. I love lyrical writing more than any other aspect of literature, and I live for the quotes that make me feel absolutely everything. I hope I can share a couple new ones with you all, that you will fall in love with, too! Also, all of these make me an emotional mess, so heads up and enjoy! 💖

#1

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

#2

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you’re not careful it will drown you.”

― Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory

#3

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

#4

“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms … or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

#5

“He kissed me with color, with drumbeat, and a surgeon’s precision. He kissed me with who he was, the sum of his life—and it was all encompassing. I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.”

― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

#6

“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

#7

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”

― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

#8

“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you’ll let me be in your story.”

― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

#9

“But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.”

― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

#10

“If I was gay, I wouldn’t need an asterisk beside my name…… I wouldn’t have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts. People wouldn’t say I’m ‘just a slut’ or ‘faking it’ or ‘undecided’ or ‘confused.’ I’m not confused. I don’t categorize people by who I’m allowed to like and who I’m allowed to love. Love doesn’t fit into boxes like that. It’s blurry, slippery, quantum. It’s only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it and cram it into some category, everything is possible. That’s me. I’m not gay, not bi. I’m something quantum.”

― Elliot Wake, Black Iris