Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week we talk about our top ten with a different topic provided by Jana. This week’s topic is Reasons Why I Love [insert your favorite book title, genre, author, etc. here]
“I’ve made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.”
“I’m glad things end, though. It forces you to love them ferociously while you have them. There’s nothing worth having that doesn’t die.”
“I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I’m going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I’ll never know.”
“So when I watch trains, it makes me think about how much movement there is in the world. How every train has dozens of cars and every car has hundreds of parts, and all those parts and cars work day after day. And then there are all these other motions. People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the sun and the moon circles Earth. Everything whirring and spinning toward something. And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it’s gone.”
“Grief is weird. It seems to come in these waves out of nowhere. One minute I’m standing in the ocean, fine. The next minute I’m drowning.”
“It’s comforting to know that you don’t have to be excellent to not be completely forgotten.”
“We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story.”
“Weird how we’re programmed to get pleasure from destroying ourselves.”
“For a long time I shined my light for someone other than me. But not anymore. Now I shine bright for me. You can create light even when everyone’s left you behind because that’s what you do. It’s what I do.”
“For the most part, you don’t hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.”
This week I wanted to give reasons why I love Jeff Zentner and his books. I think these quotes are a great example of his writing and why his books speak to me. What did you do for this week’s top ten Tuesday?
Keep on reading lovelies, Amanda.
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I should check out his work!
My post!
Yes definitely!!
Great list! I don’t think I’ve heard of Jeff Zentner before but, judging by these quotes, I need to give his work a try. 🙂
Yess, his books are so good and heartbreaking hah!
He really writes some beautiful and meaningful books. He seems really nice in all his interviews and on twitter too.
He was super nice when I met him! He evenn recognized me from twitter!