Top Ten Tuesday: Intriguing Quotes From Recent Reads

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is book quotes. Here are ten intriguing quotes from books I’ve read this year.

Intriguing Quotes From Recent Reads

“Science is asking questions. And living is not being afraid of the answer.”

“It all comes down to the first thing you think of when you wake up. That first image or idea before the filtering of conscious thought takes over, while you’re still in between. Whatever you think of, that’s the reason you get up in the first place. That’s the reason you get out of bed, into your clothes, into your shoes, and out the door.”

“Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.”

“One thing I’ve learned over the years is how easy it is for some people to say horrible things about me when I’m not around, but how hard it is for them to look me in the eye and say it to my face.”

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

“You ever consider that maybe you're not supposed to 'fit'? People who make history rarely do.”

“The worst crime you can do to yourself is to forget why you chose the path you're on, but keep walking down it anyway.”

“Now we were old. Now we were different people, and it felt as though everything we went through had happened to someone else, and we had just stood and watched it all from the future.” 

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?” 

“We’re only pretending everything is normal because we don’t know what else to do.” 

What quotable book have you read recently?