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 and maybe you'll get to know them a little better this way.
Jenna B.: "What foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men." --- F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY
Emma S.: "Books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” --- Cornelia Funke, INKHEART
Brandon L.: "You flatter me shamelessly. I like it." ---Kenneth Oppel, SKYBREAKER
Keara D.: “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” ---Orson Scott Card, ENDER'S GAME
Mary M.: "He would have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips." ---Marcus Zusak, THE BOOK THIEF
Emily P.: "Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it." ---Bryce Courtenay, THE POWER OF ONE
Alex R.: “The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool. In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.” ---Darren Shan, A LIVING NIGHTMARE
Pranshu A.: "...politeness is deception in pretty packaging" ---Veronica Roth, DIVERGENT
Lucy P.: “That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.” -Ben Sherwood, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST. CLOUD
