TTT | Favorite Book Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly topic hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she provides a topic, and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here. This week’s topic is your favorite quotes and I’m focusing on quotes from books read this year.

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“Every moment mortals died, by shipwreck and sword, by wild beasts and wild men, by illness, neglect, and age. It was their fate, Prometheus had told me, the story they all shared. No matter how vivid they were in life, no matter how brilliant, no matter the wonders they made, they came to dust and smoke. Meanwhile every petty and useless god would go on sucking down the bright air until the stars went dark.” —Circe by Madeline Miller

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“I can’t pretend the cloying feeling in my chest is anything but guilt. It’s sticky and sharp and every breath seems to drive it deeper into my lungs. She was trying to protect me, her enemy, the man she only married to keep this fucking city safe. The city doesn’t deserve her. The Thirteen sure as shit don’t.”—Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

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“It’s you I love. I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”—The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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“And I’m struck speechless as I watch her slowly unfold for the third time, piece by piece. It’s so fucking stunning, I almost forget about my own orgasm. My hands are still bound over my head, and I love the feeling of being this thing she’s using to make herself come. I’d give her my body every chance I get if this is what I get to experience every time. She’s perfect.”—Mercy by Sara Cate

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“Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart.”—A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

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“I don’t care if she deserves someone just as sweet as she is. I want her chained to me, and I’ll rip out the throat of anyone who thinks they can take her away.”—Electric Idol by Katee Robert

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“The werewolf thing only enhances all the parts of me that were already broken and wrong. It’s trapped me with the worst of myself. It’s my reckoning.”—Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

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“We’re part of the earth below us and the sky above us. Our veins echo the patterns of rivers and roots. There’s sunlight and moonlight in our bones.”—The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

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“‘From this moment forth, I will never have to listen to you again,’ I grind out, my voice sounding less human, more monster. More Syren. His mouth opens to say something but I cut him off. Forever. My arm shoots out through the bars with my claws extended and I pierce his skin with them, reaching through muscle and fat and bone until I feel his beating heart under my palm. I snarl and close my hand around his heart and pull it back out of his chest and through the bars. While he’s still looking at me, while he’s still alive for just a few more seconds, I take his still beating heart and shove part of it in my mouth, biting down with needle sharp teeth as ravenous, monstrous hunger takes over. I make sure it’s the last thing he sees.”—A Ship of Bones and Teeth by Karina Halle

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“But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.”—Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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