Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud (Claire @ Book Lovers Pizza)’, so today I’m sharing quotes from ten different books that put a smile on my face!
Gideon had always known that this would be how she went: gangbanged to death by skeletons.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
“I’ve spent the last two hours worried that you were bleeding to death in a ditch,” Evie continued. “Now that I know you’re okay, I just want you to be bleeding to death in a ditch.”
“Aww, Lamb Chop, you missed me.”
“That’s what you just heard?”
“What can I say? I’m an optimist.”
Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
“You know, for all the lecturing I’ve heard about how emotional women supposedly are, we have nothing on the men I’ve known.”
The Empire of Gold by S.A Chakraborty
“We all have our issues. I have a spare tire around my middle. His father is Satan. Nothing that can’t be worked out if we try hard enough.”
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
“It’s a symbiotic relationship: those two excel at being idiots, and I excel at shooting idiots. Everyone gets what they want.”
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
“But some of these plants are my friends. I wasn’t going to just leave them.” She ruffled her fingers through the lavender.
“Oh good,” said the Beast dryly. “Here I was afraid that I had kidnapped a sane person by mistake.”
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
“Look,” he says. “I’ll stop. I’ll leave Wellbelove alone from now on. She doesn’t matter to me.”
“That makes it worse!”
“Then I won’t stop!” he says, like he’s the one who should be angry. “Is that better? I’ll damned well marry her, and we’ll have the best-looking kids in the history of magic, and we’ll name them all Simon just to get under your skin.”
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
“Holy shit! Gross!”
“Maggie!” my mother snapped.
“Holy crap! Gross!”
“Better.”
The Awesome by Eva Darrows
After a while, she whispered in his ear, “Sweetie, are you crying?”
“No,” he said. “I’m leaking masculine pain from my eyeballs.”
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Daisy waits patiently with Hansel and Gretel as what can just about be described as a mob forms gradually around her. This takes about a minute. Hansel coughs nervously to fill the awkward pause as the small crowd ambles over, eventually hauling her up and carrying her off to the ducking stool, one particularly helpful mob member carrying her basket of toiletries for her.
“Whee!” comes the bloodcurdling cry of the accused witch.
Darkwood by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
Fun list! The Dani Brown quote made me LOL as did several of the others.
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Yes to all of this list! I absolutely loved The House in the Cerulean Sea and Gideon the Ninth! They both cracked me up. I still need to read Lair of Dreams and Carry On, but I loved the quotes for both, so I’m thinking I’m going to enjoy them!
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These quotes are the best. XD I love the banter in the Diviners trilogy, I almost included it this week on my list! Gideon the Ninth is one that keeps intriguing me. I think I’m going to need to check out a lot of these books because these quotes have totally hooked me, haha.
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Gideon the Ninth is so good! 😀 I highly recommend Darkwood, too–that book made me laugh so much.
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These are so much fun! I especially love the one from The House in the Cerulean Sea, since that book found a place in my heart. 🙂
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Thanks Lisa! The House in the Cerulean Sea is just wonderful, isn’t it?
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Hahahaha!! I love this. I’ve had a very terrible day and this made me LOL! I loved it. Thanks for that! I really can’t wait to read Gideon! 🙂
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Aw I’m glad this brought you a bit of laughter then! Gideon the Ninth is so, so good–bonkers, but brilliant.
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I have heard mixed things but I’m going in blind and I’m excited!!
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Lair of dreams looks like it has some pretty awesome quotes. 🙂
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The Diviners series is so good!
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Love this take on the prompt–these had me laughing, too! Happy TTT 🙂
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Thanks! 😀
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I can’t wait to read The House in the Cerulean Sea. It sounds like an absolute delight.
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Ahh I hope you love it! It’s so soft and warm.
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Gideon the Ninth is calling to me…I really want to read this book!
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Please do! It’s brilliant.
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Love that line from Gideon! 😂 And I thought Bryony and Roses was a fun book too.
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I really need to read more T. Kingfisher! Everything I’ve read by her has made me laugh.
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Love that you included quotes and shared some of the laughs that way 🙂 The House in the Cerulean Sea was indeed full of amazing and funny quotes. And Gideon the Ninth sounds hilarious too!
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Gideon the Ninth is so good, I highly recommend it!
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Ooh, funny quotes is a great interpretation of this week’s prompt! Great list 🙂 I haven’t read any of these (?) but they are still entertaining quotes!
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Thanks! I recommend all of these–especially Gideon the Ninth if you’re in the mood to laugh. 😀
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Haha great quotes!
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Thanks!
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I loved these!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/top-ten-tuesday-304/
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I love your take on this TTT! XD I really had to laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing! *lol*
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Thank you! 😀
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I adore Tamsyn Muir’s brand of humor and a quote from Gideon the Ninth makes complete sense in any list at all. And thanks for the fun quote from Darkwood, looks like I’ll have to try out that book soon.
~Top 10 Tuesday Post @Lexlingua
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Yes, please give Darkwood a try – it’s so much fun! Gideon the Ninth had me laughing the whole way through until it didn’t, which is why I get the feeling Tamsyn Muir is going to be one of my favourite authors soon enough.
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I love the Take a Hint, Dani Brown quote😁
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It’s such a fun book!
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I like your spin on the prompt and it made my chuckle! I would also not leave my plants behind. And I don’t care who calls me sane or not.
I always wandered a bit today – Ten Feline Book Titles that made me laugh out loud
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Thanks! Haha, if I had a plant collection I don’t think I’d want to leave it either.
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LOLOL OMG ded. These quotes are hilarious! I haven’t even read half the books but I defo want to now! 😂 Oh, too good! I looove those quotes from Cerulean Sea and Dani Brown though–can remember precisely when they happened (and pretty sure I highlighted them too)! 🤣 Bahaha, great list, Jess!
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Thanks Dini! 😀 I recommend all of the books on this list–especially Darkwood and The Diviners series!
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That Lair of Dreams quote is hilarious! 😂 And the one from Dani Brown! I love that book!
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I love The Diviners series so much, the banter between the character is so much fun. 😀
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How did I forget Gideon the Ninth??! D’oh! But this is a great list. These are my books that made me laugh out loud – some recent reads and some familiar classics.
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Thanks! The sense of humour in Gideon the Ninth was right up my street.
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I can’t stop giggling at these quotes! Fun. 🙂
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They all gave me a giggle, too!
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Too funny!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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