So, we're now in the section where I put up my favorite reads and my favorite lines from them. I read ebooks in epub format using my phone with the help of the app Pocketbook. I have this habit of highlighting the lines that I can relate to or feel strongly about. I would never do this with my physical books, though.
The first one I'll be putting up is my favorite romance novel, granted I don't usually read or like romance novels. I mostly read them like I would drink tea - to cleanse the tastes of what I previously consumed. But I actually loved this one.
Favorite Lines from:
Isla and the Happily Ever After
by Stephanie Perkins
I wish he would look at me the way that he looks at his subjects.
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Shoulders rounded down, head cocked to the right, nose an inch from the tip of his pen. Absorbed. My heart swells with a painful sort of euphoria.
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I feel frayed. Excited. Unravelled.
And then…I’ll lose the transmission. His signal will go cold.
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I feel his stare – a string as delicate and gossamer as a spider’s web, gently tugging at the back of my skull.
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He glances at me, pleased, and then smiles to himself.
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Because I’m not thinking. I’m hoping.
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I’ve never had a conversation like this before, where something so sensitive was discussed with such ease.
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But he still has to remember to make eye contact and smile. I mean, obviously he smiles, but he only does it when he means it. Unlike the rest of us.
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"So he’s honest.”
“Even when you don’t want him to be."
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But I understand that his priorities are elsewhere – his art.
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Nuit Blanche. White Night
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The feeling is that we have everything to say.
And where do you begin with everything?
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He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled.
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A supersmart hot girl who reads comics? Are you kidding? You were definitely on my radar.
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I like that you’re tiny. I like that I could carry you around in my pocket.”
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I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home
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Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles?
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How can something so obvious be so shocking?
There are a lot of things to be considered when judging a book (definitely not just by its cover). There's plot, character design and development, pacing, wording, point of views, settings, how detailed it is and should be, etc. And while those are all important, I think we actually judge books by how we can relate to them. It's probably because I also liked someone very similar to the male lead in this novel, so I could relate to the main character on a spiritual level lol. I cried when she cried, I was in love as she was. I had never been to Paris or New York or Spain but I felt like I was there with them, I was there as her. Isla and the Happily Ever After isn't really that dramatic, intense, romantic, nor does it have a moving storyline, but it's these feelings as if you are the main character that you get and experience when reading a book that hits the spot. That's when you know it's a great read.
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