Top Ten Tuesday: Character Quotes!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the Broke and Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl where bloggers are given a prompt that is usually a list of ten bookish things.

Todays prompt: Things Characters Have Said

As I was doing this I realised that I was going to end up with a stream of quotes all from the same books and authors (I have so many quotes I could keep going forever) so I tried to mix them up a bit but how could I not include my favourites?

1 – “This is the arena and here we live to die.” – Galdoni, Cheree Alsop

2 –  “Remind me to make you smile like that again, when you aren’t dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorize it.” – Powerless, Lauren Roberts.

3 – “When people say a knight’s job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.” ― Tamora Pierce, Squire

This whole list could be full of Tamora’s quotes but I will settle for just one more!

4 –  “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

5 – “No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword  

6- “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain” – Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard.

7 – “Flame and shadow. One cannot exist without the other.” – Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard.

8 – “A lie will raise me up, and one day another lie will bring me down.”― Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard.

9 – “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

10 – ““How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people – girls, women – went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”― Kristin Cashore, Graceling.

Extra – I am currently reading Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard and finding myself highlighting every other quote so heres one of my favourites so far!

“And what kind of empire could rise from such a clash. With myself at its head, alone without equal. Without need for any other.” – Erika, Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker

I am adoring her character so far – I love when characters openly think about the injustices and prejudices that limit their actions and Erika’s understanding that everyone around her would move to support her male cousin or another heir if given the chance makes her a 5 star character for me!