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This week's list is the Top Ten Quotes from books read in the past year or so. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted at The Broke and the Bookish.
I have more than ten quotes here. What I did was took some of my favorite Tuesday Teaser quotes from the past year or so.
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Whenever I read a Pride & Prejudice retelling or sequel or spin-off I wonder whether it will be worth the paper it's printed on. This year I read a couple that were excellent.
At that she looked up, a twinkle in her eyes. "I am so glad that you prefer me to
handsome women," she said teasingly.
For the first time she had ever known him to do so, he rolled his eyes. Elizabeth burst out laughing, and he soon followed with his quiet chuckle. "Did I not say that your propensity is to willfully misunderstand?" he retorted.
~Unequal Affections: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling
by Lara S. Ormiston, page 78 (Read my review)
by Lara S. Ormiston, page 78 (Read my review)
"The hermit had a daughter?" Darcy said. "Hermits are supposed to be solitary."
"He wasn't a very good hermit, what with having a family and all," Mr. Parker admitted.
"He wasn't a very good hermit, what with having a family and all," Mr. Parker admitted.
~The Suspicion at Sanditon (Or, The Disappearance of Lady Denham) (Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries)
by Carrie Bebris, page 79-80 (Read my review)
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I also enjoyed this Georgette Heyer novel, set during the Regency period.
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by Carrie Bebris, page 79-80 (Read my review) ***************
I also enjoyed this Georgette Heyer novel, set during the Regency period.
'Mercy on us! You hold Mr Brummell by your side for half an hour and then ask me what it can signify?'
Judith gave a gasp, and turned pale. 'Ma'am! Oh, good God, ma'am, that surely was not Mr Brummell?'
'Not Mr Brummell Of course it was! But, my dearest love, I particularly warned you! What have you been about?'
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One of my favorite authors is Deanna Raybourn. I read two from her during the past year, the final installment in the Lady Julia series, Bonfire Night, and the eagerly awaited first novel in her new Veronica Speedwell series, A Curious Beginning.
"...You can't expect a fellow to sleep through moans and chains without a bit of help," Plum protested. "What's all this about?"
"We were forcibly sedated by nefarious means," Portia informed him. "Isn't it thrilling?"
"Thrilling? I should think not," Plum replied. "It's damned impertinent."
I did not bother to explain that it could hardly be considered a proper abduction when I was clearly there of my own volition. I might have escaped him a dozen times, but it seemed unkind to raise the point when he thought he was doing such a masterful job of keeping me in tow.
~A Curious Beginning: A Veronica Speedwell Mystery
by Deanna Raybourn, page 73 (Read my review)
by Deanna Raybourn, page 73 (Read my review)
"Your sleeve is soaked in blood. Do you feel faint?"
"Not in the slightest," I lied as I pitched forward into darkness.
~A Curious Beginning: A Veronica Speedwell Mystery by Deanna Raybourn, page 211 (Read my review)
by Deanna Raybourn, page 211 (Read my review)
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Anna Lee Huber has become a favorite author as well, and I love her Lady Darby series.
I could see now that he had loved his wife, in his own warped, possessive way. Which didn't mean he wasn't capable of having killed her.
~A Study in Death (A Lady Darby Mystery)
by Anna Lee Huber, page 184 (Read my review)
by Anna Lee Huber, page 184 (Read my review)
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Speaking of wives . . . how's this for a heart-warming proposal?
"I need a wife because . . ." He paused, knowing he sounded as weak as water. Then he shrugged and went on speaking because there was no avoiding it. "Because my mother's coming to visit."
by Mary Connealy, page 112 (
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Or this one, from the steampunk novel Ticker -
"My dearest Miss Farthing, will you do me the unutterable honor of wearing this cheap bit of metal that will most likely turn your finger green, pretending to love and honor me as your husband for the purposes of subterfuge and strategem?"
"My hearts and stars, that will go down in the history books as the most romantic business proposition of the century, I am certain." Still my Ticker thudded in its new, horrible way as Marcus slid the ring onto my finger.
~Ticker
by Lisa Mantchev, 68% on my Kindle (Read my review)
by Lisa Mantchev, 68% on my Kindle (Read my review)
Ticker is about a young woman with a clockwork heart, and it opens with this line:
A girl with a clockwork heart shouldn't be running late, but I was.
The story opens with the young woman finding out that although she owes her life to the doctor that invented her mechanized heart, that invention came at the cost of the lives of many people he'd experimented on.
Somewhere deep inside him still dwelled the caring surgeon and gentle man I'd known, but the blood of more than twenty people stained his hands, people he'd kidnapped off the streets of Bazalgate and experimented upon, testing different clockwork ventriculators...
All to save me.
~Ticker by Lisa Mantchev, 5% on my Kindle (Read my review)
Somewhere deep inside him still dwelled the caring surgeon and gentle man I'd known, but the blood of more than twenty people stained his hands, people he'd kidnapped off the streets of Bazalgate and experimented upon, testing different clockwork ventriculators...
All to save me.
~Ticker
by Lisa Mantchev, 5% on my Kindle (Read my review)
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I re-read a Robertson Davies novel in which the main character is murdered in the very first sentence. And it had lots of quotable lines, but this was one I chose for a Teaser:
I have never given any consideration to the matter of haunting before, and what I recollect from ghost stories does not especially appeal to me. To be a crude spectre, appearing in doorways or discovered squatting by the fireside when people enter rooms, is out of the question for such a spirit as I. My intended prey lives in an apartment, and has no fireside; I shall certainly not make a fool of myself squatting by his thermostat.
by Robertson Davies, page 21 
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I re-read a childhood favorite too - Anne of Green Gables. It's also full of wonderful quotes.
"I wouldn't give a dog I liked to that Blewett woman," said Matthew with unusual vim.
"I don't fancy her style myself," admitted Marilla, "but it's that or keeping her ourselves, Matthew."
~Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Collection (for Kindle)
), Loc 700 on my Kindle. (Read my review)
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How do you narrow down all the fantastic lines from a classic like The Princess Bride? Here are just two of the many that I loved, and that many of us have memorized from the movie.
"Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known in this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"
He was quite cheery until the iocane powder took effect.
~The Princess Bride
by William Goldman, page 180 (Read my review)
"You see," Max explained as he pumped, "there's different kinds of dead: there's sort of dead, mostly dead, and all dead. This fella here, he's only sort of dead, which means there's still a memory inside, there's still bits of brain. You apply a little pressure here, a little more there, sometimes you get results."
~The Princess Bride by William Goldman, page 317 (Read my review)
), Loc 700 on my Kindle. (Read my review)***************
How do you narrow down all the fantastic lines from a classic like The Princess Bride? Here are just two of the many that I loved, and that many of us have memorized from the movie.
"Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known in this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"
He was quite cheery until the iocane powder took effect.
~The Princess Bride
by William Goldman, page 180 (Read my review)"You see," Max explained as he pumped, "there's different kinds of dead: there's sort of dead, mostly dead, and all dead. This fella here, he's only sort of dead, which means there's still a memory inside, there's still bits of brain. You apply a little pressure here, a little more there, sometimes you get results."
~The Princess Bride
by William Goldman, page 317 (Read my review)
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And finally, on a serious note . . . I do read some non-fiction as well.
Corporate worship is all about Jesus, and if it is not about Jesus, it is not Christian worship.
We do not go to church to hear helpful living tips, nor do we go to church merely to serve or merely to exercise our spiritual gifts.
We go to church to look at Jesus.
~Look and Live
by Matt Papa, page 128 (Read my review)
We do not go to church to hear helpful living tips, nor do we go to church merely to serve or merely to exercise our spiritual gifts.
We go to church to look at Jesus.
~Look and Live
by Matt Papa, page 128 (Read my review)
by Jody Hedlund - I finished it just this morning, so I'll post my review in the next day or two.
by Angela Hunt
by Stephen R Lawhead - and this one got set aside for quite awhile because I had other books I was reviewing. I hope to get back to it soon!
by Amanda Cabot - Read my review 