Hello! Here, I’ll be posting the books I get my nose into (plus a line or two I loved most about each author’s piece).
1. Every Day by David Levithan | “I want love to conquer everything. But love can’t conquer anything. It can’t do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | “It stinks, when you analyze it, I think if you don’t really like a girl, you shouldn’t horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you’re suppose to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it.”
3. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards | “For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not at all. I have seen it, how anger makes a space for what I must call evil.”
4. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz | “You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”
5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | “People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don’t reach my lips.” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
6. Interim Goddess of Love by Mina Esguerra | “Though I’d seen and just felt just a fraction of all the love in the world, I knew that when people thought of love, they thought of moments.”
7. Life of Pi by Yann Martel | “We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It’s not a question of courage. It’s something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
8. Stardust by Neil Gaiman | “He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he decl ared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
