Favorite Book Quotes

Happy New Year readers!!! I’m so excited to be going into 2023 (big things are happening in my life this year), but today I wanted to look back on some of my favorite book quotes from the past. Some are funny, others heartfelt and serious, and some I just liked the sound of.

Disclaimer: all of the quotes from fiction books are spoiler free!

Hope you enjoy it!

Cress by Marissa Meyer, pg 318

“Iko. My name is Iko. If you don’t stop calling me ‘ship,’ I am going to make sure you never have hot water during your showers again, do you understand me?”

“Yeah, hold that thought while I go disable the speaker system.”

“What? You can’t mute me! Cinder!”

Court of Swans, Melanie Dickerson, pg 22

“We ask for thorns to be taken from us, trials to end, but sometimes God does not take them away. He walks us through them. So stay hopeful and believe for the best, but don’t lose faith if the worst happens.”

Winter by Marissa Meyer, pg 819

“I’m going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is by giving them a high five.”

Cytonic, Brandon Sanderson, pg 1

I’m not exactly a “there are nuances to this situation” type of girl. I’m more of an “if its still moving, you didn’t use enough ammunition” type of girl.

The Book Jumper by Mechthild Glaser, pg 155

Overhead, millions of stars glittered like diamonds in the black velvet of a jewelry box.

The Orphan Queen, Jodi Meadows, pg 59

“...try to be polite

“I’m always polite.”

“You’re always eyeing people’s valuables. That’s hardly polite.”

Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger, pg 173

Mademoiselle Geraldine looked at him as though he were a collapsed souffle, and he backed away hastily.

Red Tigress by Amelie Wen Zhao

Sometimes, Linn thought, bravery was not loud, or grand, or brilliant as the blaze of a thousand fires. Sometimes it was quiet. Unremarkable. Unknown. The resilient wend of water through rocks, year after year after year.

Heartless by Marissa Meyer, pg 91

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”

Cytonic, Brandon Sanderson, pg 131

“Noted, wart-eyeball,” M-Bot said.

We sat in silence for a moment.

“Okay,” Chet whispered. “I… I have to ask. ‘Wart-eyeball’?”

“I was going to call you wart-face… as humans often append face to insults, but warts are frequently on faces. I instead picked a body part that doesn’t usually grow warts– a way of implying your stupidity is irrational to the point of implausibility.”

Harley Merlin by Bella Forrest, pg 278

“What does it look like I’m doing? Wade replied

“Do you want the unedited version or the politically correct one?”

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber, pg 151

Winning at love was less about succeeding in a battle and more about continuing to fight, to choose the person you loved as the one you were willing to die for over and over.

A Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis, pg 189

“I don’t know about you, but if this is the last hour of my life, I want to spend it doing what’s most important. Do you remember that question you keep asking me?”

Horst stared at her. Then he straightened away from the wall with a wild jerk.

“Now?” he said, “Now’s when you finally agree to marry me?

Marina snorted. “Are you mad… No, I was talking about the chocolate.”

Sowing by Angie Grigaliunas, pg 206

“You look pretty rough.”

He leveled his gaze at me. “Pretty?”

“Pretty rough,” I said. Amusement gleamed in his eyes and I frowned, “Why are you looking at me like that, you creep?”

“I’m sorry, I just– I keep hearing you say I’m ‘pretty.’”

Heartless by Marissa Meyer, pg 199

“Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.”

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, pg 32

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth– only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.