Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s theme is a freebie, and as I am new to this meme, I decided to dig through their old themes for ideas. I came across Top Ten Book Quotes, which is perfect for me. I frequently write, underline and highlight my books, collecting quotes in multiple places. This is why I fought ebooks and audiobooks for so long; how would I collect quotes?! Seriously — I pulled out my copy of One Day and Shutter Island (which is about to fall apart!) for ideas.

Below are my top ten favorite quotes from books. They’re in no particular order whatsoever, and they aren’t my only favorites. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

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High school is life’s way of giving you a record low to judge the rest of your life by. I know this because no matter how shitty it got, I could always look back and say, “At least I don’t have my arm stuck up a cow’s vagina.” In fact, that’s kind of become my life’s motto. — Jenny Lawson

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I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world’s scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman’s scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, ‘No, the scariest noise is, you’re all alone in your dark house, you know you’re all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles-and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush. — Harlan Coben

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I wont push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him. It aint just bein older. I wish that it was. I cant say that it’s even what you are willin to do. Because I always knew that you had to be willin to die to even do this job. That was always true. Not to sound glorious about it or nothin but you do. If you aint they’ll know it. They’ll see it in a heartbeat. I think it is more like what you are willin to become. And I think a man would have to put his soul at hazard. And I wont do that. I think now that maybe I never would. —Cormac McCarthy

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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? — J.K. Rowling

“I’m only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not ideal, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars because I never have cash on me, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie Sale section. I’m kind of a mess.”

“I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. Then I just lap it up.” ― Mindy Kaling

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. — Rilke

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It means don’t fight battles you’ve already lost. The feminists movement should be about equal rights and equal opportunities and civil rights, not deciding what a woman can or can’t wear on her own free will on a Saturday night! — David Nicholls

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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. ― Milan Kundera

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Only a fool is not afraid. – Madeleine L’Engle