Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes (version 2.0)

Posted March 5, 2018 by Jana in Top Ten Tuesday / 25 Comments

So we first did this topic on The Broke and the Bookish back in 2013. Check out my favorite quotes back then! I still love all of those quotes, but today I get to share 10 more that I love! I’m excited to see yours!

1. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

2. “…she made her home in between the pages of books.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

3. “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

4. “There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

5. “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

6. “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

7. “Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”
― Juliet Marillier, Heart’s Blood

8. “As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

9. “Stories are lights. Light is precious in a world so dark.”
– Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

10. “When the paintings come out for you, it’s what people have meant all along when they talk about artists being immortal. In a way, their work can live forever. When the art comes alive it’s like the immortal version of the painting, like a little bit of the person painted has gotten to live forever.”
– Daisy Whitney, Starry Nights

My 13 Favorite Quotes from A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle | Blog Tour

Posted March 5, 2018 by Jana in Blog Tour, Bookish Quotes / 2 Comments

Welcome to my stop along the official A Wrinkle In Time blog tour, hosted by Macmillan Children’s, in honor of the upcoming theater release of the A Wrinkle In Time movie (March 9, 2018!

I read A Wrinkle In Time just a few years ago as an adult in library school, so I don’t have the nostalgia surrounding the story like so many readers have. I did really enjoy it, though, and can totally see why it has become such a beloved classic. I’m excited to see the movie!

Today I’m going to share with you some of my favorite quotes from the book, which is going to be a bit of a daunting task because A Wrinkle In Time is SO quotable.

My 13 Favorite Quotes from A Winkle In Time

“It was a dark and stormy night.”

“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you.”

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
– Mrs. Who, quoting Euripides

“People are more than just the way they look.”

“‘We do not know what things look like, as you say,’ the beast said. ‘We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.'”

“Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.”

“I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.”

“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.”

“But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”

“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

“We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear.”

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.”

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Series: Time Quintet #1
Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on November 7th 2017 (first published in 1962)
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Time Travel
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract”.

Meg’s father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?

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My 13 Favorite Quotes from A Winkle In Time