Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Quotes

There is a room in this school that no one knows about but me.

First line in A List of Cages by Robin Roe

I’m back with another Top Ten Tuesday post, and we’re handling a favorite topic of mine this week: book quotes! I love writing down my favorite quotes from a book while I’m reading it, and then revisiting them months or years later to remind myself of why I loved the book.
As usual, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl so head over there to check out future topics.
I’ve chosen to limit myself to one quote per book, as this would otherwise just be me quoting Fangirl and A Little Life. But let’s get started. Here are some of my favorite quotes!

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From Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson – Feminism in Fantasy

She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.

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From A List of Cages by Robin Roe – On how much it hurts to miss someone

It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said or did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered.

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From Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell – What I wish everyone would understand about social anxiety

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you (and the ones you can’t Google).

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From A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara – No one has ever described the value of friendship better

Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.

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From The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith – Reading can be bad for you

The trouble with reading is it goes to your head. Read too many books and you get savvy. You begin to think you know which kind of story you’re in. Then some stupid git with a cosmic quill fucks you over.

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From A Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne – A deep understanding of what it means to be lonely

It’s as if she understood completely the condition of loneliness and how it undermines us all, forcing us to make choices that we know are wrong for us.

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From Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia – Again, a description of social anxiety that hits a little to close to home

When I was little, it was endearing. Now it’s strange. I should have grown out of it. I should want to be social. I should desire friends.”

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From Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman – If you can’t relate to this, I want to know your secret

Forget solar energy – If you could harness denial, you could power the world for generations.

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From The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley – Why do I picture this so vividly?

It’s good for a person to be terrorized by a goat. Hard to get high and might when there’s something chasing you for vegetables.

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From The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss – A depressing, but profound bit about childhood

When we are children, we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

I love a good quote. I hope you enjoyed the post. Please, let me know if we share any favorite quotes. Happy reading!