Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Quotes From/About Books, with the prompt: Share book quotes you love, quotes about being a reader, etc.
I last did a TTT post about favorite book-related quotes in 2020 (here)… and the quotes I highlighted are still favorites! So, instead of repeating myself, I thought I’d do a slightly different spin on the topic and share some selections that I highlighted during my Kindle reading this past year. Most are rather silly… and I’m having fun revisiting them!
1: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
“You know why no one has killed me yet?”
“Why?”
“Because I never kill anyone,” says Viktor. “Honestly, once you start, that’s it, you have to keep killing.”
“That’s like lip salve,” says Pauline. “Once you start using it, your lips dry out, and so you have to keep using it.”
2: The Lark series by E. Nesbit
Life is a lark—all the parts of it, I mean, that are generally treated seriously: money, and worries about money, and not being sure what’s going to happen. Looked at rightly, all that’s an adventure, a lark. As long as you have enough to eat and to wear and a roof to sleep under, the whole thing’s a lark. Life is a lark for us, and we must treat it as such.
3: A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
I don’t know what your experience has been, but mine is that proposing’s a thing that simply isn’t within the scope of a man who isn’t moderately woozled.
4: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
She has not run down the stairs like this since she was a teenager, when your heart reaches the front door before your feet.
5: Writing Mr. Wrong by Kelley Armstrong
“Please tell me you’re serious. The hockey star you kissed in high school is now suggesting fake dating? After a meet-cute reunion on live TV? Can I book you guys a hotel room with only one bed?”
6: Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Then I sat and thought of Mina and had a nice, self-indulgent cry. Sometimes a girl finds herself alone at the feet of an unknown land, covered in grime, having just decapitated a stranger, and it’s all too much.
7: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?”
There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.”
8: Miss Lattimore’s Letter by Suzanne Allain
By the end of the morning, a morning spent in traversing the room back and forth in earnest conversation, the two young ladies were quite pleased at having made the acquaintance of someone who seemed destined to become a friend. They even had that most important characteristic of all in common: they counted the same books among their favorites.
9: We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft
When she smiles at me, I see her fangs have sprouted for the first time. They’re adorable!
10: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows
So. Her husband-to-be was a philanderer. A smooth operator. A debaucher. A rake. A frisker. (Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.)
Do you have any favorite quotes from books you’ve read recently?
If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
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The Lark series looks intriguing.
It’s a stand-alone — and I loved it!
I love all these! 🌻
Thank you!
This post appeared in my feed straight after Becky’s collection of quotes from Horror novels and was just what I needed. Thanks for making me smile.
Sweet! 🙂 I was not in a very serious mood when it was time to put this post together…
The Osman series has so many quotable moments!! Love the one you chose, haha.
I find myself highlighting so many lines while reading these books! Can’t wait to start #4!
Fun choices! Man, I love Pratchett’s ability to just mess with expectations.
His sense of humor appeals to me so much! I always have fun with these books — I should really get back to Discworld soon!
Love these quotes Lisa!
Thank you!
Great selection of quotes! Those Backman and Osman quotes brought back great memories.
Thanks! It was fun to go back through and take a look at all the great passages I’d highlighted!
ADORABLE! 💚😄
When she smiles at me, I see her fangs have sprouted for the first time. They’re adorable!
We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft
It really was a great book!
Love both the quote from the Lark and the Richard Osman quote. Great choices. 😀
Thank you! I loved The Lark, and the Osman books are just so quotable!
These are a lot of fun! I love the quote from Writing Mr. Wrong😁
It’s really a fun book! I love when book characters wink at romance trope 🙂
The Witches aren’t my favourite of Pratchett’s character groups, but that quote always makes me smile!
And the Lucy Undying one is making me more intrigued about that one, which is on my TBR to hopefully pick up in the Autumn…
I have to ask – which are your favorites in Pratchett’s world? I’ve only read a handful or so of the Discworld books, but I try to dip back in every once in a while and pick up another few.
Lucy Undying is great! I reread Dracula earlier last year, and was very into the idea of this retelling.
I am solidly a City Watch fan – Sam Vimes is my favourite Discworld character!
That’s great to know! I’ll consider City Watch for the next time I feel like picking up a Discworld book 🙂
I’m still annoyed Netflix cancelled My Lady Jane , it made me laugh.
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
Oh, me too! The Netflix version was so much fun, and there was plenty of story left to explore!
As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?”
There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.”
A great sense of humour here!
Absolutely – the Discworld series is just so much fun, and so funny!
Great list – I particularly like the My Lady Jane quote. I read a book about her before which I loved but can’t recall the name of. I should go and investigate.
Lynn 😀
My Lady Jane is a very funny spin on her life, but I’ve also read a history book (The Nine Days Queen) and I believe a historical novel too!