Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Quotes from Books

This weekly meme is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Favorite Quotes from Books. 

Wow! This really is a hard one. I tend to write the quotes I love from books I’m reading. (And sometimes… there are many of them. I actually have a quote book.) Plus, I also make bookmarks for quotes I like. (Two of them posted below. The drawings are from deviant art.)  So, I’ll just write the ten (No, actually it’s fifteen. Haha.) quotes that came to mind while doing this.

1. “If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.” 

-- Gayle Forman, If I Stay

2. “It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.” 

-- Gayle Forman, Where She Went

3. “Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.” 
-- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

4. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” 
-- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

5. “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” 

-- Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

6. “Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.”   

-- Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

7. “It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”

-- Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

8. “Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.” 
-- Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

9. “Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.” 
-- Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

10. “I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”

-- Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

11. “Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.”

-- Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

12. “When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.”

-- Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan

13. “I didn't know crushing on a guy would require me to up my calorie intake.”

 -- Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan

14. “Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.”

-- Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan

15. “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.” 
-- Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why