Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
I love quotes and it doesn’t matter where they come from – books, TV, movies, song lyrics – they just stick in my brain and come out at the most random of times. Having a Kindle really helps with this obsession since I don’t have to stop and write them down any longer – I can just highlight and save for later. Neat, huh? Also, you should see my Kindle Notes and Highlights.
Here are some of my favorites, and I hope I didn’t repeat any from the last time we did this topic.
“Don’t swim with the dolphins during a labor dispute. No matter how much they try to convince you otherwise” ― John Scalzi, Starter Villain
‘That’s the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.’ – Andrzej Sapkowski, The Time of Contempt
“This is who I am. I can’t change. I don’t want to, really. But for once I’m gonna put this devil inside me to good use.” – S. A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears
“Guncle Rule number eight: Live your life to the fullest every single day, because every day is a gift. That’s why people die. To teach us the importance of living.” – Steven Rowley, The Guncle
I usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I’m doing something that I already know is stupid. – Andrew Mayne, Black Coral
A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is. – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Intimidation was a drug. But control was an illusion. – Meg Gardiner, Into the Black Nowhere
In her mind, where the line between fact and fiction is often blurred, murder is simply a solution to a problem. – B. A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors
Perhaps a heart was indeed like a piece of dry birchwood, and could only take fire and burn brightly once—that any fire that came after would be only an ember, smaller and cooler. – Tad Williams, Shadowmarch
“I’ve seen too much of the underside of life to have much confidence in people. I don’t really believe in happy endings.” I felt him swallow. “But I’ve come to believe in you.” – Kathy Reichs, Grave Secrets
I highly recommend all of the books I’ve quoted here, especially Starter Villain by John Scalzi. He has this amazing way of taking the ridiculous and making it make sense. Much like Douglas Adams did. And, on that note, one last bonus quote for the road:
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I love my local libraries and they’re such a great resource for so many things. Plus, there’s this beautiful thing called a holds list. Trouble is, I work full-time and have a family, so I don’t always get through books as fast as I’d like sometimes. This, in turn, leads me to play this game I like to call hold list roulette. I keep clicking ‘deliver later’ because I’m either not in the mood for that particular book or because I’m buried in ARCs, group reads, or other things.
This is a very loose take on today’s theme. But I had a blast searching my previously read books for titles that included something at least closely related to nature.
As much as I love to sit down with a chonker and really immerse myself in a book, there isn’t always the time for that. Not to mention the fact that I don’t always have the attention span for it either. So, when I’m low on time or mental focus, I grab a short book to indulge my reading need.
