Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish that asks bloggers to create Top Ten lists on a variety of bookish topics. This week’s topic took a bit of digging…because, as I’ve mentioned before, my book memory is horrific. So, my list is actually the “Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books I’ve Read Since I Got My Most Recent Kindle”.
Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara:
[…] he understood that friendship was a series of exchanges: of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information.
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton:
You expect to love your children; it brings a different kind of joy to realize you admire them.
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff:
[…] a person is only as good as those with whom he surrounds himself.
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler:
I want to be able to come back here and live here and just be who I am. With you guys.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:
Survival is insufficient.
At moments when other people could only stare, he wanted to be the one to step forward.
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
[…] he liked to read a novel while he ate breakfast. It was possibly the most civilized habit Clark had ever encountered.
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen:
Cocky, we’ve been called, and I wouldn’t disagree. You don’t win championships by apologizing for yourself the way some girls feel the need to do.
Yes, Please! by Amy Poehler:
Good for her, not for me.
Tuesday Intro
Every Tuesday, fellow blogger Bibliophile By the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where bloggers share the first paragraph of the book they are currently reading or thinking about reading soon.
This is the sequel to Natchez Burning, last year’s novel about former Mississippi prosecutor Penn Cage, his physician father, the KKK offshoot Double Eagles, and some unsolved murders from the 1960’s Civil Rights Era. I usually include the synopsis of the book, but I’ve left it out this week because it includes spoilers from Natchez Burning.
Here’s the first paragraph of the Prologue:
Special Agent John Kaiser stood at the window of the FBI’s “tactical room” in the Hampton Hotel and stared at the lights of Natchez twinkling high over the dark tide of Mississippi. After struggling silently with his convictions for more than an hour, he had decided to use the authority granted him under the Patriot Act to take a step that under any other circumstances would have been a violation of the Constitution – the unauthorized invasion of computers belonging to a public newspaper. He had not done this lightly, and Kaiser knew that his wife – an award-winning journalist and combat photographer – would condemn him if she ever learned what he’d done. But by his lights, the deteriorating situation demanded that he cross the Rubicon. And so he’d quietly risen from bed and, without disturbing his wife, slipped down the hall to where two FBI technicians sat behind computers connected by secure satellite to a high-speed data link in Washington.
What do you think? Would you keep reading?
So, my comment on The Bone Tree intro is…..’and here we go’. Can’t wait.
Love your other quotes as well. And your ‘extended’ title regarding Kindles and son’s books. LOL
I thought this was such a fun prompt — love your choices, especially the ones from Station Eleven. Makes me want to reread the book. I’ve just started A Little Life and it’s wonderful, but I’m getting nervous because I know horrible things are going to happen.
I really like the quote on Shotgun Lovesongs <3
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I really need to read Greg Iles!
Great quotes, too.
I really enjoyed the Greg Iles novel I read. He’s one of those authors I keep telling myself I will read more by, but it hasn’t happened yet.
I enjoyed reading your bookish quotes, Sarah! I love how you approached the topic. That would have been easier for me, I think–just looking at what I’ve highlighted in my Kindle. I didn’t think of it though. I love the Amy Poehler quote. I really need to get that one in audio.
Ooh this sounds interesting! I’m not quite sure whether it’s one for me but that might be because I haven’t read Natchez Burning. I might have a look at that one, to see whether I can get into the tone! Thanks for sharing 🙂 I hope you have a great week!
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Sounds like there’s plenty of opportunity for conflict in this story — between Kaiser and his wife, between Kaiser and the newspaper, and maybe within himself. Interesting.
My Tuesday post features AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE.
Pretty much all of Station 11 is quotable, I think. Really enjoyed that book.
I’m also working on the Burning Tree. I got an ARC from Amazon and am working on it. Love that we’ve got new Greg Iles.
I like the sound of The Bone Tree. I might have to get this series. Girl Who Reads
Love your quotes. The one about admiring your children–yes!
I already have this Greg Iles book on my wishlist. He is a talented author whom I’ve read several times, but didn’t read Natchez Burning yet. Thank you.
Prior to The Bone Tree, Natchez Burning is the only Iles book I’ve ever read…I’m looking forward to reading more now that he’s on my radar screen!
I really need to try this author.
I’m glad April is going well reading-wise. Love the quotes, and I would definitely keep reading.
I haven’t read anything by this author–but I’ve seen his work all over the blogosphere. Hope you enjoy it.
The intro did grab me immediately, so I would keep reading. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
Loving this weeks prompt of quotes, you’ve made some great choices, love them all! I’m not so sure about the Greg Iles but I guess it would work better if you’ve read Natchez Burning.
So glad u mentioned this was a sequel. I am behind. I do like the intro.
Really enjoyed these quotes. And the one from Florence Gordon – so true!
I can’t wait to read Yes, Please! I’m on the waiting list with my library for the audiobook so that I can listen while I run!
I’m listening to it right now – can you believe I actually remembered a quote from an audiobook?! That’s so not like me 🙂
I have this one too and I love it. Greg Iles is long-winded but such a good storyteller.
A Little Life yessssss. What a good one. Station Eleven too. And that Florence Gordon one is amazing, wow. I’d never heard of that book but now I’m interested.
Give Florence Gordon a try! It’s gorgeously written…it didn’t blow my mind, but did blow some other bloggers’ minds and I did like it a lot. It’s about a crotchety, elderly ex-writer living in NYC and is filled with awesome quotes. It’s by Brian Morton.