Coincidentally, I had been planning to round-up some of the best quotes I have read recently, so this TTT topic comes at the perfect time!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where each week you list ten books. This week’s topic is a book quote freebie.
In a way, I will be glad when we are almost home and the scenery will turn into rice fields and farm plots, and I will be reminded of how far I have come, instead of what I cannot reach.
Ara, travelling from the capital Seoul to her home village
If I’ve thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.
Nothing feels like a premature achievement, it’s just what we’re meant to be doing.
the author on turning thirty
Before I met you, I was not lonely, but now I’m so lonely I talk to the walls and sing to the ceiling.
a letter from Celestial to her husband, Roy, while he is in prison
Men’s deaths are epic, women’s deaths are tragic: is that it?
“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”
How real was a person if you could shed her in a thousand miles?
Reese becoming his new identity after leaving home
It would not be noble or respectable just because I did it alone.
“Usually,” Xiala said carefully, “when someone describes a man as harmless, he ends up being a villain.”
Xiala talking to the supposedly harmless passenger on her ship
That’s what comes of hungering for something: you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.
There’s probably a lot more I can add in here – I’m easily pleased when it comes to short quotes, but I do think it’s difficult to make just a single line encapsulate so much!
Rabeeah Reads 
The wonder of a good quote is how it applies to many, many situations. I particularly like this one: “That’s what comes of hungering for something: you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.”
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That’s very true!
I did think The Cruel Prince series had a whole load of very quotable lines.
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What lovely quotes!
Just so you know, the link to this post doesn’t appear to be working on Jana’s site.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-humorous-quotes-from-books/
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Thank you! And thanks, I probably copied the wrong one 😅
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Oh wow, so many great quotes! These make me excited to read Black Sun, Iron Widow, Vanishing Half, … actually, pretty much all of these books 😂
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Haha I’m glad you enjoyed them. I thought they were good too 😂
I probably could have done a whole post on Iron Widow quotes though…
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These are all very fine quotes.
One I especially liked was:
“If I’ve thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.” – Yaa Gyasi
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Right?! That’s such good wordplay and also a really good point. The whole book is full of excellent writing like this
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Ah, I love Black Sun so much. I need to get to the sequel!
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I’m so behind — the sequel is out? I also need to get on that asap then!
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I have not read these books but I enjoyed the quotes.
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