
I missed last week of The Artsy Reader’s Top Ten Tuesday so here I am catching up. 🙂 Given that I do not have much to share about books with fall covers, please allow me to post about: Favorite Book Quotes (these could be quotes from books you love, or bookish quotes in general).
Suppose permission is granted, here are the lines that moved my heart from my most recent reads. 🙂
1. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
2. “Remember: the quality of the answers we get in this life is based on the quality of the questions we ask.” ― Charles R. Johnson, The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

3. “No one wants to be alive when they’re forgotten.” ― Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here
4. “If you want to know why people sacrifice everything for love, you have to start by asking how they fell in love.” ― Stephen Westaby, Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
5. “You have to have a home first to be uprooted from it. You have to know what love is to feel alone.” ― Etaf Rum, A Woman is No Man

6. “Life is all about small margins. A few inches here and there.” ― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
7. “Every time you sat down to create something your soul was at stake. Every page—indeed, every paragraph—had been a risk. Every sentence had been a prayer.” ― Charles R. Johnson, Night Hawks: Stories

8. “You know a bomb crater
can be made into a swimming hole.
You have learned
dark blood is better news
than bright.”
― Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
9. “What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

10. I thought about what I had lost, what I continued to lose, and I realized it was the same thing we had been losing for centuries, the ability to say “enough.” ― Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
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What are your favorite book quotes? Share them below with your TTT, too!
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Hi Rosema. I’m so glad to see you here again. I was actually reminiscing about the times where everyone’s active in the blogging world. 😊
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Oh hello there, Deb!! Ahhh. Those were the awesome days, right? So happy to see you here, too. I hope you are safe, dear!
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Thank you, Rosema. I’m excited to be back here. 😀 Hope everything is also okay with you and your fam in the PH. 😀
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i am holding up. i hope you and your lovely family are all safe, too!
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Thanks for sharing another interesting list, dearie! I’m especially curious about Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s Children of the Land. Is it good? That quote is a nail on the head!
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Yay! Thank you for reading, dearie! Yes! I would definitely suggest that book. It’s honest and vulnerable and it being non-fiction makes it more impactful to me. 🙂
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Some very good quotes here! Good to see you here, Rosema.
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Had a bumpy September but happy to be back, dear Diana. Thank you! I hope you are doing well. 🙂
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Happy to have you back! You’re welcome and yes, I’m well by God’s grace. 💙
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Amen to that! ❤
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These are nice! I love how a great book quote can really make you think!
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Definitely, Greg! I think when a sentence makes you pause. breathe. and then read it again. you’ve got an awesome quote right there.
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BTW, I tried visiting your site and was led to a page with an error message. Feel free to leave a link so I can read your TTTs, too. 🙂
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Oh no- sorry! Here’s my link!!
http://gregsbookhaven.blogspot.com/2020/10/top-ten-tuesday.html
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thanks a lot, Greg!
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Sea Prayer is an amazing book. So sad, too. My TTT Fall-ish covers
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CAnnot agree more, Anne. Thank you!
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Love the Fredrik Backman quote. 🙂
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glad you liked it! which of his books do you like best?
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I’ve not read any of his books yet ahh! But I endeavour to do so, heard loads about them. ☺️ Beartown has just been added to my shelf, excited to get into it!
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ooooh. i hope you will like Backman. 🙂
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I liked your final quote the most.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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awesome! Thank you, Astilbe!
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I really love #2, about questions and answers. Such a wonderful selection!
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agreed! that quote made me pause! thank you, Lisa!
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I love the quote about making a bomb crater into a swimming pool. Wow!
My post.
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definitely a killer, that quote! thank you, Lydia! heading…
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Good quotes, and some nice titles. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/10/ttt-100620.html
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grateful you think so, Patrick!
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Tried leaving some comments but encountered some error. Please feel free to share your blog’s link. 🙂
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All lovely quotes! Especially the one from A Woman is No Man. 🙂
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that book is truly powerful. Thank you, Dedra!
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I love that quote from Not Here. Very powerful.
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Happy you like it, Christopher! Indeed.
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