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10 Favorite Quotes From Books

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Top 10 Tuesday is hosted by the lovely folks over at The Broke And The Bookish.  Every week, there’s a topic, and people from all over the world share their lists based on that topic.

This week’s topic: my 10 favorite quotes from books.  This was a lot easier than last week’s list, because there are so many great quotes out there.  Seriously, I could do 10 quotes just from Harry Potter.  But that’s not fair to all the other quotes out there, so I am limiting myself to one quote per book or series.

I decided to pick 10 books that I really like, and then pick my favorite quote from those 10 books.  Enjoy!

1- “I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)”  From The Fault In Our Star by John Green.  It was so hard to pick one quote from this book!  There are a lot of thought-provoking ones, and also a lot of funny ones.  I decided to go with one of the funy ones.

2- “I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”  From Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling.  First of all, picking one quote from HP was ridiculously hard.  And second, picking one book was hard! I went with this quote because 1- I love PoA, and think it’s generally awesome, and 2- I think this sums up the series fairly well.  It’s also pretty amusing.

3- “I’d spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn’t been easy for a very long time.”  From Hate List by Jennifer Brown.

4- “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”  From Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.  I love Speak, and it sums up what Melinda’s going through so well.

5- “Bravo,” said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom’s chest. “The Winter prince and Oberon’s jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.”  From The Iron King by Julie Kagawa.  There are so many great lines in the entire series, but I love The Iron King was such an interesting and good introduction to the series.  I love Grim and his sarcasm.

6- “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it’s morning again, they’ll wash away
Here it’s safe, here it’s warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  I know going with Rue’s Lullaby is  the obvious choice, but I love it anyway.  It just seems to fit.

7- “Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?” From Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson.  Wintergirls was so heartbreaking, and it seems to describe the pain Lia is in so well.  I understand her struggles so well it’s scary, and I can relate to this quote a lot.

8- “If you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.” From A Wrinkle In Time by Madelein L’Engle.  I like this quote, and it reminds me that it’s okay to be unhappy sometimes.  This one just jumped out at me, and it’s going on my list!

9- “’Why does everyone keep asking me that?'” Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings?”   From Paranormalcy by Kierstan White.  There are so many funny quotes from Paranormalcy, and this is one of those favorite quotes.  Evie’s so funny, and her love of all things pink and girly is so cool!

10- “What I know is you can’t go back. You can’t press delete and re-key your life.” From By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Ann Peters.  I love this quote, and how many times have you wished you could control-alt-delete something?  It’s a great book, and this is one of my favorite quotes from it.

So these are 10 of my favorite quotes.  What are some of your favorite quotes from books?

10 Books I’d Like To See Made Into A Movie

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So, I’ve decided to do Top 10 Tuesday, which is hosted by the Broke And The Bookish.  I’ve seen it on a few blogs, and it always seems like fun!  Every Tuesday, book bloggers from all over the place make their own lists based on whatever the topic of the week.

This was a hard list for me to do, because a lot of the books I would have picked have already been made into a movie.  But I somehow managed to come up with 10, so here they are!

10 Books I’d Like To See Made Into A Movie

1- Divergent by Veronica Roth.  I would love to see Divergent on-screen.  I think the aptitude test and the simulations would be freaking amazing to see.

2- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa.  I love the Iron Fey series, and the nevernever!  I’d love to see someone else’s vision of the nevernever.  And Ash and Meghan?  One of my favorite romances ever.

3- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.  This was such a magical book, and I’d love to see how the magical, dreamlike feel of the book translates to the big screen.  This is one circus I would love to see!

4- Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier would make a great movie!  I’d love to see this book made into a movie just for the setting and costumes alone.  I loved how I could picture everything in my mind, and to see it on a movie screen would be breathtaking.

5- Avielle Of Rhia by Dia Calhoun.  I wasn’t the biggest fan of the book, but like Wildwood Dancing, the setting and costumes would make it worth it.  I think the movie adaptation would be really interesting, especially with the Bretheren Of The Black Cloaks hanging around.  Oh, and Avielle hiding after her home is attacked would make for an interesting movie.  Come to think of it, it does have the possibility to be a better movie.

6- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.  After my re-read of it last year, I realized it would be far better as a movie.  It is a pretty eventful book, and there’s something in it that would appeal to a lot of people.  It would be particularly interesting to see how it’s edited down to a 2 hour movies, but for some reason, I can’t see the author handing over the rights to turn it into a movie.

7- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.  This would make an amazing movie!  Westerfeld sure knows how to world-build, and the book had a lot of adventure that would keep me riveted.

8- Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.  It’s about the end of the world, what’s not to like?  Seeing the asteroid hit the moon, and the crazy chaos that ensues…it might not be summer blockbuster material, but it would still be a cool movie.

9- Paranormalcy by Kiersten White.  This would make an awesome movie!  Hello, pink taser!  The IPCA, hunting down paranormal creatures, a shapeshifter- I could go on about the things I liked and how cool it would be to see what the IPCA building looks like.

10- The Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine.  So what if I’ve read the 1st book in the series?  Just based off of the 1st book, and the summaries I’ve read of the other books, I think this would make a cool t.v. show.