Stephanie Sullivan: Top Ten Tuesday - Favorite Book Quotes from Recent Reads

Hello, dear readers! This week’s prompt from Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl is about cozy/atmospheric reads, but I couldn’t come up with any of those, and I decided to do something a little different. So, listed below you’ll find some favorite quotes from books I’ve read recently. I hope you enjoy them. Happy Tuesday!

1. “Unlike people, books will never let you down.” - The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

2. “The kindred joy of having discovered someone who read the same book was immediate, a friend whose mind had resided once in the same fictional world.” - The Secret Book Society by Madeline Martin

3. “I never knew my mother. She died the night that I was born, and so we passed each other in the dark.” - Isola by Allegra Goodman

4. “Perhaps that is the draw of books. To show us the way even when we think the path is too dark to see.” - The Secret Librarian by Soraya M. Lane

5. “God is good even when the world is not.” - These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas

6. “Beauty is mysterious, as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” - When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

7. “Broken is still beautiful, still works, still wakes me in the morning, and at the end of every day past and those to come, I can love broken.” - When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

8. “Love heals the shattered places.” - When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

9. “Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there.” - When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

10. “Then you came, and whenever I saw you, you had a book within reach. And I thought...this girl is never alone.” - The Call of the Wrens by Jenni L. Walsh