Top Ten Tuesday for September 29, 2020 – Favorite Quotes.

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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. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment on her weekly post.

This week the topic is:
Favorite Quotes.

In no particular order, here are some great quotes from some books I’ve loved:

“The ends of the earth are never the points on a map that colonists push against, enlarging their sphere of influence. On one side servants and slaves and tides of power and correspondence with the Geographical Society. On the other the first sight (by a white eye) of a mountain that has been there forever.” – The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

00e11-catch-22“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.” – Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!” – The Princess Bride – William Golding.

“The funeral is supposed to be a quiet affair, for the deceased had no friends. But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church’s east corner is crowded.” – The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton

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“She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.” – A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki

“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.” – A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman.

Hamnet UK“She, like all mothers, constantly casts out her thoughts, like fishing lines, towards her children, reminding herself of where they are, what they are doing, how they fare. From habit, while she sits there near the fireplace, some part of her mind is tabulating them and their whereabouts: Judith, upstairs. Susanna, next door. And Hamnet? Her unconscious mind casts, again and again, puzzled by the lack of bite, by the answer she keeps giving it: he is dead, he is gone. And Hamnet? The mind will ask again. At school, at play, out at the river? And Hamnet? And Hamnet? Where is he? Here, she tries to tell herself. Cold and lifeless, on this board, right in front of you. Look, here, see.” – Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell

All the Rivers UK“How difficult it will be not to fall in love with him. How impossible, I thought worriedly, how tricky, to insist on not falling in love, to make my heart forget this strange, gentle man and this exciting night, to not get swept away. On the brink of sleep, enveloped in his breath, I thought how dangerous and complicated it would be, and how if I wasn’t careful, I might fall in love with him right at that very moment.” – All the Rivers – Dorit Rabinyan.

“The thing about lipstick, the reason it’s so powerful, is that it is distracting. Men don’t see the flashes of anger in your eyes or your clenched fists when you wear it. They see a woman, not a warrior, and that gives me the advantage.” – Code Name Hélène – Ariel Lawhon.

“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.” – Cider House Rules – John Irving.

How about you?
What are some of your favorite quotes from books?

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30 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday for September 29, 2020 – Favorite Quotes.”

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  2. I am terrible at remembering quotes from books and never write them down when I should. But I heard a good one the other day from Octavia Butler: “kindness eases change.” I am going to try to remember this as we move from remote to hybrid learning in the near future.

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  17. I love quotes and you have some great ones here! I need to get better at saving them! One of my recent favs is this one …. “In your dark night, I urge you to hold to your faith, to embrace hope, and to bear your love before you like a burning candle, for I promise it will light your way.” ~Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger ….now I need to file this somewhere I can find it again!

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