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Top Ten Favourite Book Quotes
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
“Fate, I think, is a thief.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
“I’ll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.’
‘Wonderful,’ Po said. ‘It’s quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It’ll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
“There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire
“Bacon improved things dramatically.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
“Down with tyranny!’ Bramble cried. ‘Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!”
― Heather Dixon, Entwined
“He’s around the twist,’ said Azalea. ‘Breaking all the windows? He’s mad.’
‘Ah, no,’ said the King. ‘It’s only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don’t actually do it, well, that’s love.”
― Heather Dixon, Entwined
“Yes,” he said. “You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Beginning
“And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Beginning
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About Nemo
A lover of kittens and all things sparkly, Nemo has a degree in English Literature and specialises in reviewing contemporary, paranormal, mystery/thriller, historical, sci-fi and fantasy Young Adult fiction. She is especially drawn to novels about princesses, strong female friendships, magical powers, and assassins.
