It’s time for Top Ten Tuesday! Thanks Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl for creating this meme.

This Week’s Topic: Favorite Book Quotes

Note: I’m not going to include book covers or links. Just the name and author with the quote.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.

Marked by P.C. and Kristin Cast

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don’t think so, and the cat doesn’t think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Most of the heroes of the sagas are men who saved fair maidens from villains and monsters, because the fair maidens could not save themselves. This was a problem. I did not want to be a fair maiden who needed to be saved. I wanted to be the hero doing the saving.

When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

Alifair has worked so hard to hide that he was given a girl’s name at birth, and has to conceal the fact of his body to be considered as the boy he is. He has done this work, learning to bind himself beneath his shirts, settling his voice as low as the other boys’, and he has done it so well that even this man doesn’t suspect.

Dark And Deepest Red by Anna Marie McLemore

There are some men who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.

One For The Money by Janet Evanovich

Grief was beginning to be overlaid by the first layer of the skin and time. Jordan supposed that layer would get thicker and thicker and in a way she was sorry. Grief cut, but it also made you remember.

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

If he’s giving you up, maybe he isn’t worth it.

Flawless by Sara Shepard

Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. it means you go on even though you’re scared.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas