Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes

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
6. "The greatest adventure is what lies ahead." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
7. "What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again." - Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
8. "Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you." - Gayle Forman, If I Stay
9. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
10. "I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass