We recently asked our Teen Board to tell us their favorite book quotations. You probably have one yourself --- you read an excellent book and a line just sticks with you. You may not know why (and maybe not even care), but there it is, in the back of your mind, on the tip of your tongue or on the back of your eyelids. It speaks to you in some way, and that's all that matters. Maybe you even recite it during the perfect moment, and you smile to yourself because it's your own inside joke.
Let's see which quotations stood out to a few members of the Teen Board.
Nithin P.: "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." --- J.K. Rowling from HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Taz J.: "There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder,mystery and danger! Some say to survive it you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am." --- Lewis Carroll, THE ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Samantha E.: "If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane." --- John Green, LOOKING FOR ALASKA
Shelby H.: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” --- Dr. Seuess, I CAN READ WITH MY EYES SHUT!
Amanda P.: “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” --- Stephen Chbosky, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Priya: "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books... which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal" John Green, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Omar F.: "If Gene Johnson were to put on a black leather jacket, he could pass for a roadie with the Grateful Dead." --- Richard Preston, THE HOT ZONE
Alonzo D.: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" --- Margaret Mitchell, GONE WITH THE WIND
Kate F.: "All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull." --- Lauren Oliver, REQUIEM
Do you share any of these favorite book lines? Which ones did they miss that you love?
