10 Books that Have Stayed with Me in Some Way
1. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
“What you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while.”
2. The Jessica Darling Series by Megan McCafferty
“When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”
“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart. The same you who stopped us before we could start.”
3. The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives compiled by Katie Couric
“Never let anyone else’s recipe for success intimidate you or get in your way. Know your own truth, and live by it.” - Mario Batali
4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
"Safe? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
5. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
”What you did was brave, but men don’t want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men.”
“I’m not myself.” “You can never say that. You’re just a piece of yourself right now that you don’t like.”
“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.”
6. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
“Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person.”
7. Crazy Love by Francis Chan
“As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing.”
“The fact is, I need God to help me love God.“
8. Strong Women Soft Hearts by Paula Rinehart
“You know you’re an adult when you realize that some sorrows in life will never go away. You learn to carry them with you in ways that enrich rather than debilitate your life, in ways that make you wise.”
9. The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella
"Ok. don’t panic. Don’t panic. It’s only a VISA bill. It’s a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?”
10. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
“Attraversiamo.”
