Top Ten Tuesday...

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week's theme:  QUOTES FROM or  ABOUT BOOKS.

I often jot down favorite quotes from books I'm reading, and I love quotes about books and reading, too. So this week's TTT was right up my alley. Here a few recent favs:

"No one likes third-act breakups."

--Sarah Monzen, Hearts in Circulation

"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated."

--George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"In the book of life, everyone has chapters they don't like reading out loud."

--Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

"Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing."

--Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"I consume romance novels for the same reason I watch birds--for the sparks of joy, because I prefer to be happy when the world gives us so many reasons to be sad."

--Sarah T. Dubbs, Birding With Benefits

"Adventures are measured in moments and memories, not minutes."

--Savannah Scott, Are We There Yet?

"It's all about writing the very best story of your life. Not just how you live it--but how you choose to tell it."

--Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

Happy Reading!

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week's theme:  Favorite Book Quotes.

I've actually done several posts with favorite quotes, so the only challenge this time around was choosing quotes I hadn't posted yet. Luckily, I keep a notebook of really good quotes.

Here are ten of them that I really love:

"...bookshops are magic, and books are the road maps by which misfits find each other." 

--Wendy Welch, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just 

waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

--Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to  Young Poet

"Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about."

--Haruki Murakami, Kafaka on the Shore

"Olive had a fear of everything, but her greatest fear was of being afraid."

--Henry James, The Bostonians

"I'm reminded that God often leads us down paths that seem unsafe and uncertain, but if we could see the path as He sees it, we would surely choose that same trial every time."

--Stephen Kirkpatrick, Lost in the Amazon

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

--Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"One can't pray for different musical notes. One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given."

--Peter Hoeg, The Quiet Girl

"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

--W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

"Happiness is like the ocean. Sometimes swelling, sometimes retreating. Constantly shifting. Sudden swells are what made it all so fun."

--Erica Spindler, In Silence

"There is no habit more valuable than that of dropping into a bookstore occasionally to look round--to look both inward and outward."

--Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

Happy Reading!

Favorite Quotes...

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is Inspirational or Thought-Provoking Book Quotes. Which is a good one for me, because I've been collecting favorite quotes for years. I have a notebook full of them. The hardest part? Choosing just ten for this list. But I did my best.
Here they are:

"That was another of our fears: that Life 

wouldn't turn out to be like Literature."

Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

"One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings; it is out of books one learns about love and pain at secondhand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books."

Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt

"What if 'someday' is today?"

Wendy Welch, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap

"The biggest jolt in growing up was to discover that you didn't like 

what others liked and they thought you were crazy to like what you liked." 

Dawn Powell, My Home Is Far Away

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses

waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

Rainer Marie Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"It is a good thing to turn your mind upside down

now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the

particles run the other way."

Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

"The problem with anger against God is that 

it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain."

Peter Hoeg, The Quiet Girl

"Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you 

managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. 

But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be 

the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about."

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I knew that if I allowed my fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. ... I simply did not let myself become afraid. Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid."

Cheryl Strayed, Wild

"...nothing is more unlike a novel than real life."

 Maria Edgeworth, Belinda

Happy Reading!