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Hi Everyone!

I feel like Blab About Books has been a little underloved recently, so I thought about threads, and I'm not sure if this one has been done before, but I'm doing now, so, AHEM.

Favorite lines/quotes from books! Have you ever felt like an author just pulls you in with the first line of a book? Or like there was an AMAZING quote that you just wanted to remember forever? Or one that you love because it's so true for you? This is the thread for you! Please post your quote, plus the book that it came from and the authors name (If you can remember it.)

'Now for those of you who know anything about blind children, you are aware that they make the very best thieves.'
First line of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier 

'Reader, I married him.'
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

'Call me The Giver.'
The Giver by Lois Lowry. 

submitted by Hummingbird, The Backyard Flowers
(November 30, 2019 - 1:32 pm)

ooh the fourth quote really reminds me of Antigone, which I'm studying right now in literature class :) basically that quote sums up the entire play - I wonder if Shannon Messenger had read Antigone?

submitted by Poinsettia
(April 2, 2024 - 8:17 am)
submitted by TOP
(April 1, 2024 - 6:18 pm)

"Get thee gone from my gates, thou jail-crow of Mandos!" --Feanor, The Silmarillion

sorry I just couldn't help myself 

submitted by Miriam, age of ages, name change?
(April 2, 2024 - 4:05 pm)

"Holy unanticipated occurrences!" - Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo (one of my faves!)

submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age TheLibrary, The FireMist Sea
(April 7, 2024 - 6:30 pm)

“i just don’t like the people he associates with—assorted criminals, jazz musicians….” — Sign of the Unicorn, Roger Zelazny

“ooh you neuroscientists not only eat your dead but also believe all our decisions are unconscious” — Determined, Robert Sapolsky

submitted by Hex
(April 15, 2024 - 8:30 pm)

"The water doesn't get to command me anymore. Only I command it. And I think I can save the city." -Linh, KotLC, Nightfall

"Ohhh, a lover's quarrel! Those are my favorite. Anyone have snacks? I feel like we should have snacks for this." -Ro, KotLC, Nightfall

 

 

submitted by Amity, age unknown, Somewhere
(April 17, 2024 - 8:16 am)

"No, she wouldn't say anything to me about Lucius afterwards, except to stay away from him. So during the Incident at the Potions Shop, while Professor McGonagall was busy yelling at the shopkeeper and trying to get everything under control, I grabbed one of the customers and asked them about Lucius."

Draco's eyes were wide again. "Did you really? "

Harry gave Draco a puzzled look. "If I lied the first time, I'm not going to tell you the truth just because you ask twice."

There was a certain pause as Draco absorbed this.

"You're so completely going to be in Slytherin."

"I'm so completely going to be in Ravenclaw, thank you very much. I only want power so I can get books." - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

 

He was standing in a bright, open-air platform next to a single huge train, fourteen long carriages headed up by a massive scarlet-metal steam engine with a tall chimney that promised death to air quality. - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

 

SNUDOO! - Wings of Fire 

submitted by Celine reading HPMoR, again finally, yay!
(April 18, 2024 - 12:05 am)

"My mother used to say that things we've lost have a way of getting back to us,if not in the way we expect." -Luna lovegood one of the harry potters

submitted by Cocoa cat
(April 19, 2024 - 10:12 am)

"'No one has ever done it before,' enthused the girl, who wore striped socks and whose name was Sue.

'It's an absolute breakthrough,' affirmed the long young man, who had a beard at one end and stained suede shoes at the other and whose name was Jeremy." ~Absolute Zero, by Helen Cresswell

submitted by Amethyst, silver wind
(May 7, 2024 - 3:45 pm)

My Two Favorite First Sentences:

Heroes of Olympus:The Lost Hero

Jason was having a rotten day even before he got electrocuted

Twilight-Breaking Dawn

Life sucks and then you die.

Yeah, I should be so lucky 

submitted by KatanaLuna, age *immortal*
(May 9, 2024 - 2:29 pm)

"...'there is one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.' " - The Picture of Dorian Gray

" 'Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life. I suppose you think my awfully foolish about it?' " - The Picture of Dorian Gray (really, the whole book and the artist's note and the author's note about artists and everything so far is splendid!)

okay and now I really have to stop reading. I was supposed to be looking for ANOTHER book for my mom but look! I didn't know my dad had this one and that it's written by Oscar Wilde and getting distracted again whoops ok byee! :D

submitted by CelineReadingRampage, huh…
(June 15, 2024 - 2:30 pm)

"Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight." -Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

"I guess you didn't need me after all. I'll go write some love poetry and cry a lot now." -Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (or the Hammer of Thor, I forgot) by Rick Riordan 

submitted by Darkvine
(July 13, 2024 - 11:08 am)

"so doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? you purchase a ticket when you're born. and it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. it's all just luck.

my head swirls on this, but then softer thoughts soothe, like a flatted third on a major chord. no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds." ~Wonder

submitted by Amethyst
(August 4, 2024 - 2:47 pm)

"There were stars. They burned my eyes." -The Book Thief 

"One was a book thief. The other stole the sky." - The Book Thief

 

submitted by Amity
(September 15, 2024 - 5:04 pm)

"Three very short men were carrying a large, flat piece of wood painted to look like a living room "

The end, Daniel Handler 

submitted by Climate Girl , age Existing , She/they
(October 26, 2024 - 3:09 pm)