Top Ten Tuesday: Book Quotes

hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Here are my top ten quotes: (I tried not to repeat Rowling, but didn't quite make it. Oh well.)

"That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."    

    - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

    - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"And he discovered, finally, the source of the honey-sweet sound.  The sound was music." 

    - Kate DiCamillo, Tale of Despereaux

"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."

    - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope."

    - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

    - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

 "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

     - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 "And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"

      - Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are 

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

       - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

       - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince