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#TopTenTuesday: Favourite Quotes from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s topic is Favourite Book Quotes (You can pick your favourite quotes from books, or about books! You can set a theme like quotes from books about love, friendship, hope, etc. or you can just share quotes you loved from your recent reads!)

Every time I come across this ‘share your favourite quotes’ prompt I always tell myself “I’m going to start keeping better track of quotes while I’m reading so I won’t struggle next time”… and I never end up doing it. 😂 Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me? Lol. Thankfully, Goodreads has me covered sometimes and today is one of those lucky days!

Today I’m going to share eleven quotes from the most recent addition to my all-time favourite books list: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. These are by no means all my favourite quotes because I’d probably end up sharing half the book if I could share them all! I did tab a lot of pages while reading but I am too lazy to trawl through them to find all my favourite quotes, so I’m glad to say that Goodreads has me covered.

“…it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”

“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one’s self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.
“A dreamer,” mourns her father.
“A dreamer,” warns Estele.
Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades… Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end… everyone wants to be remembered.”

“But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it’s gone.”

“His heart has a draft. It lets in light. It lets in storms. It lets in everything.”

“The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful. They are fickle, unsteady as moonlight on water, or shadows in a storm. If you insist on calling them, take heed: be careful what you ask for, be willing to pay the price. And no matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”

“That time always ends a second before you’re ready.
That life is the minutes you want minus one.”

“Déjà vu. Déjà su. Déjà vécu. ”

“They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”

“Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. You better live a good life.”

Have you read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue? If you have, what’s one of your favourite quotes? If you haven’t, what are you waiting for (I know it won’t be everyone’s cuppa though and that’s OK! 😉)?

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  4. I’m always saying I’ll keep better track of quotes I love and it never happens, so I totally understand that feeling. I’m a huge fan of everything by V.E. Schwab and loved Addie LaRue when I read it. One of my favorite quotes from the book: “She can go without food (she will not wither). She can go without heat (the cold will not kill her). But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things-she would go mad. She has gone mad. What she needs are stories.”

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    • Hello, fellow Schwab fan! I’m a huge fan of her work as well and I’m so glad that I finally read this (I was terrified by all the hype initially). 😃 I also love that bit of the quote you shared but the continuation of it (which I shared) is what HIT so hard for me. I was like YES! 😭 So relatable!

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    • UGH, I loved it SO MUCH, Lindsey! I can’t believe I waited so long but I’m also glad I waited this long. It was just meant to happen now 😂 While looking at these quotes, I couldn’t help but go back and re-read bits of the sections they’re from in the book. SO GOOD!

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    • I’m a big fan of Schwab’s books but I ended up loving this so much more than I expected to. I know it won’t be for everyone though, especially with the slower pace. But if you love well-fleshed out characters and achingly beautiful writing, I would recommend it! 😍

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