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My Favorite Quotes From My Recent Reads
I’m one of those readers that always has my annotation stickers and a highlighter so that I can mark my favorite passages. Sometimes it’s a small line and other time it’s full paragraphs or scenes. But when I’m reading, there’s always something from a story that grabs my attention or that draws me to relate with a character in a deeper way. Today we’re looking at some of my favorite quotes from books I’ve read recently.
These are not necessarily my all-time favorite quotes, but recently ones that have been important to me.
Top Ten Quotes From My Recent Reads:
In order of oldest on my shelves to newest.
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“She had beheld him without pretense. She had spoken to him without riddles. She had been real… inexpressibly real, in a way he’d seldom known anyone to be in his life.”
The Girl From the Hidden Forest, Hannah Linder
“One other thing I’ve learned about the truth greatly – the passage of time. Time, I’ve come to find, is very, very good at deception. It is almost as good as people.”
The Girl With Three Birthdays, Patti Eddington
“Ah, the deception of it all. That was life, though – the stories you tell yourself, and the stories you present to onlookers. Rarely did the two match. We’re all of us a combination of romance novels, humorous tales, and tragedies, depending on what angle we show the world.”
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple, Joanna Davidson Politano
“Everything in God’s creation has a coming, a being, and a going, and it isn’t our business to interfere with God’s plans.”
The Mermaid Riot, Joy E. Held
“We’re afraid of death in part because we’re afraid of the grief that follows. Death is momentary, but grief is what’s left behind. The remnants of every memory, every moment, every emotion. Grief is all the unspoken words that will never be said, the lost I-love-you’s, and the emptiness of the shadows they leave behind. Grief is a demon that stalks us.”
Night Falls on Predicament Avenue, Jaime Jo Wright
“There are three options when a woman is ignited into fury. She can fight, she can let it consumer her, or she can flee.”
What the Mountains Remember, Joy Callaway
“Do you think you can ever forgive me?”
She didn’t pull her fingers free from his. She didn’t turn away again. But she couldn’t quite keep a few blocks of the ice wall she’d lived with for so long from trying to shield her heart.
An eternity later, she finally said, “I don’t know.”
A Noble Scheme, Roseanna M. White
“Care to get lost with me, Miss Stanton?”
Clara stared at his outstretched arm, every fiber of her being immediately hesitant. Every thought in her mind immediately wary of letting down her guard.
A Lady’s Guide to Marvels and Misadventure, Angela Bell
“There’s nothing noble about suffering. It’s an ugly, petty, crawling business. You’ll see men die with less dignity than dogs, cursing you sometimes, that you can’t save them.”
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden
“Just as a caterpillar undergoes dramatic transformation to evolve into a butterfly, Myers believed that only in death could humans achieve their superior form.”
A Place For Vanishing, Ann Fraistat
Looking for book recs…
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