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I feel like Blab About Books has been a little underloved recently, so I thought about threads, and I'm not sure if this one has been done before, but I'm doing now, so, AHEM.

Favorite lines/quotes from books! Have you ever felt like an author just pulls you in with the first line of a book? Or like there was an AMAZING quote that you just wanted to remember forever? Or one that you love because it's so true for you? This is the thread for you! Please post your quote, plus the book that it came from and the authors name (If you can remember it.)

'Now for those of you who know anything about blind children, you are aware that they make the very best thieves.'
First line of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier 

'Reader, I married him.'
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

'Call me The Giver.'
The Giver by Lois Lowry. 

submitted by Hummingbird, The Backyard Flowers
(November 30, 2019 - 1:32 pm)

"It wasn't just the chance of escape that invigorated him; it was being one cat in a group, all working together to achieve something. This is how cats are supposed to live."

- Warriors, Graystripe's Vow

"We stick together. No matter what happens. We're a team, and we look after one another." 

- Wings of Fire, The Dragonet Prophecy 

submitted by Moon Wolf, age years, Earth
(June 2, 2023 - 3:09 pm)

"Dantés descended, murmuring the supreme word of human philosophy: 'Perhaps.'"

---The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas

submitted by Artemis
(June 16, 2023 - 9:48 am)

"Memory is a tricky thing... it doesn't just recall the past, it makes the past. If you remember our trip as a few minutes, it will be a few minutes. If you make it something else, it will be something else. 

-Shadrack, The Glass Sentence, S.E. Grove

 

All the conversation between Glory and Deathbringer

Everything Whiteout says (when not enchanted to speak normally)

All the first sentences in the Rick Riordan books

All the Chp titles (if this counts) for Magnus Chase

 

submitted by Celine, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(June 25, 2023 - 3:52 am)

Also:

"She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped, Rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil."

-The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

"It has often been said that one should never judge a book by its cover. As any serious reader can tell you, this is terrible advice. Serious readers know the singular pleasure of handling a well-made book-the heft and texture of the case, the rasp of the spine as you lift the cover, the sweet, dusty aroma of yellowed pages as they pass between your fingers. A book is more than a vessel of ideas: it is a living thing in need of love, warmth, and protection."

"Sophie loved books beyond reason. Indeed, she loved them more than she loved the world around her. It was the very thing that made her unique, until it made her dangerous."

- Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, Jonathan Auxier

"She was found by Michael Jones, who was ten at the time, and who dutifully put her in the lost property cupboard." -The Bookshop Girl, Sylvia Bishop 

Everything in The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill

"There once was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself-not just sometimes, but always." and everything that follows- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

"Come October, I look like I'm ablaze. It's a miracle the fire department doesn't try to hose me down every Autumn."

"You might be surprised to learn that all red oaks are named Red.

Likewise, all sugar maples are called Sugar. All junipers are called Juniper. And all boojum trees are called Boojum.

That's how it is in the tree world. We don't need names to tell us apart.

Imagine a classroom where every child is named Melvin. Imagine the poor teacher trying to take attendance each morning.

It's a good thing trees don't go to school."

-The Wishtree, Katherine Applegate

"As the the vacuum cleaner roared towards him, he did not (for instance), think, Here, at last, is my fate come to meet me!

He did not think, Oh, please give me one more chance and I will be good.

What he thought was Man, I sure am hungry."

-Flora and Ulysses, Kate DiCamillo 

"I noticed several weird things about the surfboarding cat." 

-Crenshaw, Katherine Applegate

"Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brooke that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had fettered out the whys and wherefores thereof."

-Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maude Montgomery

"Jonnhy's only true companion was a melancholic chicken with a peculiar name. Her name was: Pestilence and Famine."

-The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, Mark Twain and Philip Stead

"Marnie is my BFF and therefore must receive all of my thoughts, rambling or otherwise."

-This Is Our Rainbow, a collection of authors, edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby, Sylvie and Jenna, Ashley Herring Blake

And I will post more later! 

submitted by Celine, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(June 25, 2023 - 7:13 pm)

"We were driving through Godsend and the early sun was striking the moss-grown headstones in the churchyard. I tried to realize that I shall die myself one day; but I couldn't believe it---and then I had a flash that when it really happens I shall remember that moment and see again that high Suffolk sky over the old, old Godsend graves."

---I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith 

submitted by Artemis
(June 29, 2023 - 7:07 pm)

I realized that my fondness for the above quote is explained by the one below...

"He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening---i do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood him perfectly."

---Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle 

submitted by Artemis
(July 24, 2023 - 9:34 am)

' "Whaddup," Aru said, nodding at Mini. "Why are in Home Depot?" asked Mini. "Why would we not be in Home Depot?" asked Aru. "This place is awesome. They literally have an aisle that's just doorframe. It's fun to stumble out of them. And then if you run up to people asking 'What year is it?' they get all confused. It's great." "You're a menace to society, Shah." "I try."

Aru Shah and the Song of Death: Roshani Chokshi

 

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes! 

submitted by Ghost, age Infinite, A galaxy far, far away...
(July 15, 2023 - 7:26 pm)

OMG I LOVE THAT QUOTE SO MUCH <3

submitted by Hawkstar
(August 9, 2023 - 3:05 pm)
submitted by top
(July 21, 2023 - 10:09 am)

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts."

"And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread out before me."

"There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did."

--- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 

submitted by Artemis
(August 2, 2023 - 8:14 pm)

Ooh, that last one is so classically Dickensian :)

submitted by Poinsettia
(August 7, 2023 - 2:18 pm)

"She was sitting on the bough of an apple tree, with a crimson shawl wrapped around her head, and her eyes were bright with roguish fire."

-L. M. Montgomery, The Golden Road

submitted by Poinsettia, a sea of crystal waters
(August 7, 2023 - 3:14 pm)

The whole entire SoC duology. So many funny, witty, true, sweet, clever, beautiful quotes in there!

submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age Ketterdam, The Grishaverse
(August 20, 2023 - 11:11 am)

Yes! Books in the Grishaverse do have really good quotes. King of Scars duology has some I really like too. Here is one: 

“Elizaveta nodded. ‘Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers. But we who wield power adorn ourselves in flowers to hide the sting of our thorns.’

Be sweeter. Be gentler. Smile when you are suffering. Zoya had ignored these lessons, often to her detriment. She was all thorns” (387).

submitted by Sylvazia, age 130 eons, Ravka
(August 20, 2023 - 7:03 pm)

"It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world---what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably sniff them out?" ---Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See 

submitted by Artemis
(August 27, 2023 - 7:04 pm)