Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a Memorable Things Characters Have Said (quotes from book characters that have stuck with you).

Hello Readers! I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep up the reading pace I set last month since I’m participating in Nanowrimo, but I did get an unexpected invite to read some Amazon Holiday Original short stories by four authors, including Rainbow Rowell and Chandler Baker—whose stories I especially enjoyed. They were the perfect quick, festive reads for my busy schedule. You can check out my review here. I’m also almost finished with my OwlCrate edition of The Scorpio Races, and I’d forgotten just how much I love that book. It’s definitely the perfect November read! You can see my unboxing here, as well.

Today’s prompt is all about those memorable things the characters we love have said. I don’t have the best memory, so I went back through some of my favorite recent reviews and checked my highlighted quotes on my favorite ebooks to pull this list together. <3

Let’s see what I’ve picked! (In no particular order.)

(Link to Goodreads synopsis through book title.)

1

Noelle from Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis

“I wish things were simple. I wish I wasn’t me. I wish I wasn’t so confused, and I wish I didn’t feel so scared. To live. Because I am I think. I’m afraid to live too loudly. And I wasn’t always like this, but I don’t know how to get back there.“

My Review

2

Ashley from The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

“I’m beginning to think that’s kind of what being an adult is—learning that sometimes people are a little bit wrong, but not for the reasons that you think they are, and also a little bit right, and you try to take the good with the bad. Right now, we’re young and still figuring out how to be good.”

My Review

3

Colleen from Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

“It wasn’t as easy as people thought, being married to a man who never complained.”

My Review

4

Viv from Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

“Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to live in a town that doesn’t revolve around seventeen-year-old boys who get laid way too often just because they know how to throw a football.”

My Review

5

Majella from Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen

“Sometimes Majella thought that she should condense her whole list of things she wasn’t keen on into a single item:
Other people.”

My Review

6

Mae from In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

“I’ve spent years not trusting my ability to make decisions and quietly letting life just happen to me. It can’t be a coincidence that the moment I stopped being passive and followed my instincts, everything seemed to fall into place. I know what makes me happy—trusting myself. What a gift, right? I found happiness.”

My Review

7

Sunny from Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon

“I just realized that I had spent my whole life thinking I was better and smarter and more clever than all the other idiots on the planet, when really I was nothing more than afraid. Meanwhile, all the other idiots on the planet were busy running around having fun.”

My Review

8

Saffyre from Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

“Invisibility was my favorite state of existence.”

My Review

9

Liv from Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

“What was there to worry about? It’s not like I was an active aquaphobic carrying nine years of emotional baggage onto a boat held together by duct tape.”

My Review