Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Quotes

 
Okay, y'all, there is just no way I can list off only ten book quotes and be at all honest. Actually, my memory's so bad, that I would always forget something. So, basically, here's a list of ten freaking awesome quotes from fantastic books. ENJOY!

1. "It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language." - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
2. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
3. I would always rather be happy than dignified" - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
4. "The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward." - Mira Grant, Feed
5. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." - Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
7. "You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." - Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
8. "I have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and I delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't seem natural. 'Cause friendship should not be as easy as that. It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or books.omg... U like the outsiders 2... it's like we're the same person! No we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference." - David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
9. "But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live?" - Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
10. "How can he be unhappy when he is strong and alive? What more is one to give him? And think how he was brought up—free from all the superstition and ignorance that lead men to hate one another in the name of God. With such an education as that, I thought he was bound to grow up happy." - E. M. Forster, A Room with a View