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Hi Everyone!

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)

"'This duck tells me nothing!'" — Daniel O'Malley, The Rook 

"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped." — Andy Weir, The Martian

"I CAN DO MAGIC! FEAR ME, LAWS OF PHYSICS, I'M COMING TO VIOLATE YOU!" — Eliezer Yudokowsky, HPMOR

"'Nice comes from the Latin word for "stupid",' said Griffin. 'We do not want to be nice.'" — R. F. Kuang, Babel

"'We are at war,' Kitay said. 'And you are being evacuated because for gods know what reason, you've been deemed important enough to this country's survival. So do your job. Reassure your people. Help us maintain order. Do not pack your [fricking] teapots." — R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War

"'I don't love you. And I can kill anything.'" — R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War

"'Do not second-guess the sack of flour. The sack of flour is wise beyond her years.'" — Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

submitted by Hex
(October 21, 2023 - 2:36 pm)

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore  

submitted by SwallowPoint, age 14, The Air
(October 23, 2023 - 2:40 pm)

Hi everyone!

I love those quote <3 Narnia was my first love and its just SO good!!!!!

My favortie quote ever is probably this one:

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord 

The Thief Lord was such a good book I would definently reccomend!!! 

Sorry, I hope the font doesn't come out weird but does anyone else love Cornelia Funke as much as I do? Inkheart was SO good. Idk if its just me....

 

submitted by Stellarlune , age infinity, Somewhere :)
(November 13, 2023 - 10:07 am)

ACK!!!! I LOVE CORNELIA!!! Have you read Dragon Rider? (so good!)

submitted by Nyxie, age eons, smwhr
(November 23, 2023 - 2:40 pm)

I love Cornelia Funke too! I haven't read Inkheart or The Thief Lord, but my favorite books of hers are probably Dragon Rider and Igraine the Brave.

submitted by Lupine
(December 3, 2023 - 9:31 pm)

oopsies... @admin, there's a Goodreads link in the above comment.

Thank you for letting us know, Poinsettia! I fixed it.

Admin

submitted by Poinsettia, a sea of crystal waters
(December 3, 2023 - 10:28 pm)

I usually put a sticky note at all of the funny/good bits in books.  

"...but the real world is where the monsters are. That’s where you learn whether you’re any good or not.” - Annabeth Chase, chapter 11 in The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

"Hudson smirked. 'Literally no on has ever looked at me and thought, 'Oh, a normal kid.''
'I can't relate,' Fig joked, twirling an especially bright purple curl in his fingers. 'Everyone assumes I'm entirely normal at all times.'" - A Chance To Fly

"'Hey, I made you a trophy last summer,' Rey cut in. 'Did you ever add it?'
'It was a Barbie you spray-painted gold.'
'Not the question.'" - A Chance To Fly

'"TRUTH!' Fig delcared from across the campfire.
'Great,' Hudson said. 'Because this is a game of Truth or Truth, so truth is literally your only--'
'TRUTH,' Fig repeated." - A Chance To Fly

That's all I've got for now b/c "Prolouge/Little Shop Of Horrors" came on and I wanna sing along

 

submitted by Rainbow, Holding up the sky
(December 7, 2023 - 6:43 pm)

some funny Les Mis quotes :D :

"Now, listen attentively! Sugar is a salt."

"You like apple-puffs, ladies; do not abuse them." 

submitted by Hex
(December 22, 2023 - 3:09 am)

"Professor McGonagall, the Headmaster set fire to a chicken!"
"He wha-" — Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

"Come here, cat. You wouldn't want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow." — To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'" — Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower." — Mort by Terry Pratchett

"And that was why every Wednesday night the choir of the Unitarian Church would meet in secret and sing the hidden transcendent Names of God in Pig Latin." — UNSONG 

submitted by Hex
(January 24, 2024 - 12:48 am)

Ok. I more or less know those first 4, but that last one???

LOVE IT 

submitted by Celine gtg :), age FeiyaUHZNI, Coming back with quotes
(January 24, 2024 - 10:39 am)

more UNSONG quotes :D

"Wilson teamed up with Robert Shea to perform a series of experiments testing his hypothesis. In their work Placebomancer! they tested two rituals to produce rain - one invoking the demon Amdusias, the other the demon Crhvano. Both produced the same couple centimeters of rainfall, even though Amdusias was a Great King of He** who had been known to occultism for hundereds of years, and Crhvano was a set of seven letters pulled out at random from a bag of Scrabble tiles. As long as they gave the rigual a sufficiently ominous ambience, both invocations worked alike." 

"'Why,' he asked, 'is there a trap door under Wyoming?'" 

"[Is it the one with the blood escalator, or the other one?]" 

submitted by Hex, accidnetal BaB domination
(February 2, 2024 - 11:32 pm)

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all do."                           Hermione  harry potter

i can't remember which book sorry.  

submitted by Cocoa cat, age Blank
(February 4, 2024 - 1:24 pm)

I love that one XD so great

submitted by Hawkstar, age Dynamite, My thoughts in Korea
(February 4, 2024 - 3:28 pm)

SO. MANY. The ones I currently have at hand from the past few days:

 

“The sky so big that I want to see every corner of it” - Afterlove (read the preview and so want to read the book ahh)

“First one out wins at all things ever!” - On A Sunbeam

 

“Scottish folds are powerful” - On A Sunbeam (bc On A Sunbeam is basically my comfort read; I just like reading random parts at random times :) )
"Lane: I have observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
Algernon: good heavens! Is marriage really so demoralising as that?" - The Importance of Being Earnest (reading the 202 page preview XD, I'm currently at Act II and it's SO good thanks @Poinsettia (I think) for the recommendation a while back that I finally got around to :) )
submitted by CelineReadingRampage, age I wish, The Library for HOURS
(March 8, 2024 - 2:05 am)

"It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn it"Bronte Keeper of the lost cities Everblaze

"Besides,I'm Batman so I could be you're hero any day"Keefe keeper of the lost cities neverseen

"Our family's don't decide who we are,believe me it drives my parents crazy and sometimes that's the only thing that gets me through the day"yet another keefe quote keeper of the lost cities either neverseen or lodestar

yet another kotlc quote"there's always a choice"Sophie kotlc I can't remember which book(sorry:(

and one more"I'd rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one"Sophie kotlc the first one

oops actually one more that is yet again a kotlc quote"these scars are a part of me now,and I've decided I'm done pretending they're not"Biana kotlc flashback(you are beautiful just the way you are Biana and anyone who thinks otherwise and can't see you're beauty within isn't worth it)sorry just had to put that in there.

this has become such a long comment I'm gonna have to sign it off:)                                                                                                                                                            Cocoa cat:)   

 

submitted by Cocoa cat
(April 1, 2024 - 6:17 pm)