While the
first category (Top Five Book Boy Friends) is relatively easy, picking
memorable quotes turned out to be a harder task. There are books which have
more than one quote; nevertheless, five best and memorable quotes must I pick,
so here they are….
#5 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
#4 Little House on the Prairie by Laura
Ingals Wilder
#3 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
#2 The Last of the Mohicans by James
Fennimore Cooper
...and the winner is....
#1 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Except for Jane Eyre’s, each quote I have picked here really represents what the books are about. But my favorite—and the one which has sunk deepest in my hear—is this one below… The truth and the irony are so strong, just like the book. It deserved to get the title of....
What about
you? Share your memorable quotes in the linky below!
That Last of the Mohicans quote is really good! I'm pretty bad at remembering quotes but when I saw that one here I remembered how much I liked it when I first read it.
ReplyDeleteGood choices! :)
Actually I'm not good in remembering good quotes either, but since I began this yearly meme, I put down good quotes in a word file, so that when it's time to do Book Kaleidoscope, I would have had a handful of good quotes to select from. :)
DeleteLovely choices, & I love how you used images for the quotes! The House of Mirth is one of my favorite novels. Wharton is such a poet.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marianne. Yes, I love Wharton because her prose is beautiful, and often 'mind-blowing'. I can't wait to read her other novels!
DeleteBeautiful choices!
ReplyDeleteI love the quote from Jane Eyre, of course, and the quote from Little house on the Prairie! Simple but beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYep. And it contains priceless lesson of life; it encourages us in hard times.
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