Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Choose your own topic?! What?! This week I decided to list some of my favorite quotes from books. This topic is partly inspired by The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I just finished reading it (it's amazing by the way; go read it immediately), and I was blown away by how many great lines are in the book. It's very rare for me to stop while I'm reading and think, "That's a really great line," so for that to happen to me multiple times while reading a book must be a sign from the universe (and we all know how much the universe wants to be noticed). So, here's my list of top ten favorite book quotes.

1. "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations." - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
2. "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided . . . Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. "I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it--or my observation of it--is temporary?" - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
4. "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
5. "All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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The Here and Now by Ann Brashares 
Published by Delacorte Press
Date: April 8, 2014
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Pages: 242
Format: eBook
Source: Publisher via NetGalley

Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.

This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.

Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth.

But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves.

From Ann Brashares, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, The Here and Now is thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking—and a must-read novel of the year.

- Goodreads

Prenna immigrated to New York when she was twelve, but she didn't come from a different country; she came from the future. Faced with the harsh reality that humanity can no longer survive in their time, Prenna, her family, and other members of the community traveled back in time to safety. Once settled in their new home Prenna and her family must follow a strict set of rules in order to stay secure. However, Prenna begins to question everything--the leaders in her community, the rules she's been told to follow for years, and the real purpose she traveled through time in the first place--when she gets to know Ethan, a boy from her school who has the uncanny ability to recognize travelers on sight. With Ethan at her side, Prenna attempts to solve the mystery surrounding the future of humanity, tearing down everything she's ever known along the way.

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