This Friday’s Question:
Quotes That Make You Swoon: What are some of the most swoon-worthy quotes you’ve experienced in a book?
Quotes are my FAVORITE thing about reading. I collect them like I collect owls. I promise not to overload this post with awesome, but if you are interested in seeing more, you can read my collection here.
“If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. And I’m pretty sure that hurts worse than whatever Marc would do to me. Whatever your dad would do. Hell, Faythe, I’m pretty sure that never touching you again would hurt worse than the nastiest death Calvin could think up for me.”
― Rachel Vincent, Shift
“The truth was…he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.”
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“You’re not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You’re twice what anyone else is because you survived.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
“You’ll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you’ll beg me to stop before I’m finished.” -Bones
― Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave
“You smell good, too,” said Patch
It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”
Naked. I know the drill.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, ‘So now that you’ve got me, what are you going to do with me?’ I turn into him. ‘Put you somewhere you can’t get hurt.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I’ve served ye well.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
“Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
“I’ll kiss you until we can’t breathe. I’ll strip you naked and taste every inch of you. Then I’ll shag you until neither of us can see straight.”
― Meljean Brook, The Iron Duke
“As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said I’m a Juicy girl.
“I bet you are,” he murmured.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever
“Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he’d taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.
The fire of Brigan’s heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire
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I’m hella impressed by the pages and pages (and pages) of quotes over on GoodReads, which I will cheerfully be perusing for some time to come. My collection is here. Paltry!
However, I also have these four notebooks that I’ve kept since high school, filled with book quotes, and it just kills me that they’re not digitized at all, so I can’t search or reference the contents very easily. Bad planning on my part, back before the internet. Sigh.
Thanks for sharing this!
I have a few notebooks too! Damn internet, screwing up our organization! I definitely plan to look over your GR collection!
Dear lawd I may have just fainted a little
Well, it was supposed to be swoon-worthy quotes, so my job here is done.
Did you check out mine? Le Sigh
T.G.I.F.
I’m going through the list…I bet yours are yum!
This is a great start to my morning
SCORE!
AHHHH now I want to go back and read the whole Shifters series again. It is one of my favorite series ever!! And the Hunger Games quote melts my heart!!
ME TOO. One of my ultimate favs.
I wish I had more time. I would totally go back and re-read them all. Maybe I will try to put together a read-along sometime. That would be fun.
Last year, I talked about trying to put together a year-long reading challenge of re-reads. I’ve never hosted something that large and I didn’t not want to tackle it by myself. I would love to do it though!
I have never put together anything like that either so it’s quite terrifying, but I would love to do something like that. Being that there are 6 books it would definitely be time consuming, but totally worth it.
I LOVE the quotes you picked!! Yay for Shift, Lover Mine, Shiver, One Foot in the Grave & Faefever!! Of course they’re all great
I have many more!
I love The Hunger Games quote you chose – it made my heart skip a beat! So beautiful in its simplicity
It is a powerful quote.
Oh that Patch!! hahahaha swooooooooooon
Naughty boy.
I’m having a helluva time trying to comment on the FMT post. It keeps saying it is missing when I try to bring up the comments. I donno… I think it’s smarter than me or something.
Anyway… I promise I won’t wave a buffalo wing in front of your face if I can comment on the right post next week.
Btw, you mom does rock!
Dang it! Why are ppl having trouble commenting on those posts? *sigh*
Ooh, that IRON DUKE quote is HAWT! *fans self*
I have SO many quotes from Rhys…rawr
I must sit down , because you have sufficiently swooned me off my feet. Barrons & Jamie yum. That was a great Peeta quote too. Yummy goodness.
They are all so nomable.
Bahaha! Love the Faefever quote. That’s one of my favorite series ever.
That series is ridiculous, right? So addicting.
Definitely. Have you read Fever Moon yet? I pretty much bought it the day it came out. It’s awesome to see everything is full color.
I have not read it, or bought it yet. I will, someday. I do love me some graphic novels, especially based on beloved series!