Top Ten Tuesday: Book Quotes

hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

This week's Ten:

10 13 Favorite Book Quotes

This list could definitely have been three (or more) times as long, so I selected quotes that were particularly memorable for me and/or that expressed something in a new/eloquent way and/or just had beautiful, evocative language. 

". . . to a cul-de-sac where rainbows and unicorns came to die."

Made You Up by Francesca Zappia (pg 350)

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew sie by side, our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that." 

Matched by Ally Condie

"Ruby's stories didn't have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses." 

Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Sima

"I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up." 

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

"We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women." 

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

"Do you know how magic works? . . . Hope. That's how. Without hope, there would be no magic." 

The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig (pg 11)

"I'm not depressed. I'm unhappy. It's different. . . Depression is irrational. I'm unhappy because my life sucks. That's rational." 

Placebo Junkies by J.C. Carleson (pg 185)

“It’s easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes it’s hard to explain exactly why we like something."

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

"The room had never felt this empty. Like I was trapped between the space of an echo and a scream."

The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (pg 14) 

"'What color is hope?'

'I hope in all the colors,' Dovie said. 'That's what makes it hope.'"
Learning to Swear in America by Katie Kennedy

"You go to a Quaker school. Isn't it against your religion to be a jackass?

Where You'll Find Me by Natasha Friend

"...She sits at the piano; it's a concert Steinway as ebony as the night, and just as long."

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

"Her voice was soft, but not like a pillow. Like a pile of fine metal shavings or powdered glass." 

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (pg 326)

Please leave a comment and let me know your favorite quotes from books!

Broken Crowns ~ Lauren DeStefano [@LaurenDeStefano @simonteen]

Broken Crowns (The Internment Chronicles #3)
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
March 22, 2016
272 pages
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War rages everywhere and Morgan is caught in the middle in the haunting conclusion of The Internment Chronicles, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy.

The city is falling out of the sky…

Morgan always thought it was just a saying. A metaphor. The words of the dying. But as they look up at the floating island that was their home, Pen and Morgan make a horrible discovery—Internment is sinking.

And it’s all Morgan’s fault.

Corrupted from the inside by one terrible king and assailed from the outside for precious resources by another, Internment could be destroyed because Morgan couldn’t keep a secret. As two wars become one, Morgan must find a way to bring her two worlds together to stop the kings that wage them…

Or face the furthest fall yet.

In Perfect Ruin and Burning Kingdoms, the first two Internment Chronicles books, Morgan, Pen and the others discovered what both Internment, their floating island of a city and the ground were like. Contrary to what they had been told or what they wanted to believe, neither was quite a utopia. In fact, neither seemed safe for them or others.

There's the threat of war in Havalais from Dastor, the bombings they already endured. Havalais, neighboring Dastor, and Internment are all under the rule of kings who seem more interested in oower than protecting their people.

The other things they have discovered about the ground, though, is that while it's rulers may not be any better, the people themselves are not to be feared.

With the knowledge that the Havalais' king's trips to Internment are causing it to sink, they will need to find a way, working with some from the ground, to correct things. Try to save everyone.

Broken Crowns is, in some ways, a bigger book than the fist two. It is definitely still about the characters, their relationships and their choices, but now it's focused around the two kingdoms, their rulers and the desire to save each of themselves - form each other and themselves. Neither the ground nor Internment can be a refuge from the other place, its laws, restrictions and dangers. It is time for change.

Only attempting that change can very likely lead to treason changers, death, or both. Morgan will have to decide how much she's willing to risk - and how much she wants things to be different.

I really liked how in Broken Crowns you can really see how much the characters have grown up since the beginning. They aren't as idealistic as they once were, but they also aren't jaded and willing to let things stay as they are. In the end, characters made decisions you wouldn't have expected from those Perfect Ruin characters but that fit with who they've become and what they've experienced.

Broken Crowns does a very nice job bringing together all that's happened or was learned in the first two books and giving it a conclusion. I don't think I agree with one part of the ending but I do understand it.  These books have shown us a world far different than what I expected when I first started Perfect Ruin and I loved it, the characters and how they ended (well, except for one bit but Im working on that).






review copy received, from publisher, via NetGalley

Burning Kingdoms ~ Lauren DeStefano (earc) review [@LaurenDeStefano @simonteen]

Burning Kingdoms (The Internment Chronicles #2)
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
March 10, 2015
320 pages
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** likely contains spoilers for Perfect Ruin - see my review here **

Danger descends in the second book of The Internment Chronicles, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy.

After escaping Internment, Morgan and her fellow fugitives land on the ground to finally learn about the world beneath their floating island home.

The ground is a strange place where water falls from the sky as snow, and people watch moving pictures and visit speakeasies. A place where families can have as many children as they want, their dead are buried in vast gardens of bodies, and Internment is the feature of an amusement park.

It is also a land at war.

Everyone who fled Internment had their own reasons to escape their corrupt haven, but now they’re caught under the watchful eye of another king who wants to dominate his world. They may have made it to the ground, but have they dragged Internment with them?

After the ending of Perfect Ruin I couldn't wait to see what happened in the next book, Burning Kingdoms.  I did not read Burning Kingdoms' description, os it's no surprise that it was not quite what i was expecting. (I like that I didn't read the summary, it let me discover the world or the ground as I read.)

While the end of Perfect Ruin had me thinking that the world Morgan had landed on, on the ground, was similar to - if not the same as - our modern world. I liked that I was wrong.

It's a world similar to our own, but also similar to the 1920s, in many ways.

It wasn't everything I was expecting, but even better, it wasn't everything those from Internment were expecting. Some parts of life on the ground are better than they expected - it's open and expansive, there's not a limit on children, it snows - but some are even worse - war and its deaths.

I liked that we got a fuller picture of the characters introduced on Internment and met some great new characters, as well. Characters who are, to say the least, not the best of friends are in a whole new world and that strengthens their bond. Whether they want it to or not. The development of everyone's relationships - from Morgan and her brother and her friends to even Morgan and the princess - see great development in Burning Kingdoms.

As the crew from Internment adapts to life on the ground and all that it entails, readers gradually get to learn more about this new world.

That life on the ground is so similar to a life or world readers know makes the differences even more surprising and enjoyable. Internment was 'other' from its incarnation, but here we get a world more recognizable but still different.

I did wish more had happened in Burning Kingdoms, even as, looking back at it, quite a lot did happen. It was less epic than Perfect Ruin, so it did feel a bit less fantastical and grand. I know that I am going to pick up the third book as soon as I am able, though. Even as I may have wanted just a bit more from the novel, I cannot deny that I enjoyed it, quite a lot. With the new characters, the relationships formed and solidified in Burning Kingdoms and now knowing about Internment, the ground and its warring kingdoms and the relationship between Earth and the island, I can't wait to see where the author takes the story.









digital galley received from the publisher, via Edelweiss, for review