Quick Quotes - Round Three

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Quick Quotes - Round Three

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Back in 2016, Amy Lupin introduced an activity called Quick Quotes with these words:
For the next few months or so, we'll be running "Quick Quotes", which is based on the game Bring Your Own Book. We'll be posting a new prompt each week, and you'll then be tasked to grab any book you have on hand and have a flip through it to find a suitable quote and post below.
Quick Quotes ran through September of 2018, and then we started Round Two in September 2021, continuing with it through June of 2022. Many people participated in it each of those times, coming up with most marvelous quotes for the given prompts!

Today we celebrate the return of Quick Quotes - with Round Three! We look forward to reading more awesome quotes from you. :)

Someone of Book Club will post a prompt each week. We'll be giving out 10 Beans per quote.

Our first prompt for Quick Quotes - Round Three is the same classic we used in Rounds One and Two:

Useful Advice for Adventurers

from Demigods & Magicians: Percy and Annabeth meet the Kanes by Rick Riordan
Given the chance, monsters almost always attacked.
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Post your quotes for the prompt below. Please be sure to make sure that the quotes you post (and the books they come from) are HOL-appropriate. Thank you.

If you have any suggestions for prompts, please send us an email at hol.bookclub @ gmail.com (removing the spaces) with the subject "Quick Quotes Suggestions".

Remember to click "Subscribe Topic" above if you would like to get notified of new prompts.
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From The Last Girl on Earth by Alexandra Blogier
“You can choose to do the right thing. Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t doing what you’re told.’”
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From The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden:
“You must allow things to be what best suits your purpose. And then they will.”
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From The Tale of Pigling Bland by Beatrix Potter:
Take that peppermint out of your mouth, [...]we may have to run.
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From Legendarium by Jennifer Bell
The point is, it's OK to feel lost sometimes. You'll get where you're meant to be in the end.
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Everything looks worse in the dark, you know.
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From J.R.R. Tolkien. The hobbit
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
From A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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From The Novice by Trudi Canavan
"There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit"
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From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol:
Every adventure requires a first step
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From “The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World” by David Deutsch:
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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Beans have been sent! :)


Our next prompt for Quick Quotes Round Three is:

A sentence in a fortune cookie

From A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
Coincidences happen.

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Post your quotes for the prompt below. Please be sure to make sure that the quotes you post (and the books they come from) are HOL-appropriate. Thank you.
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From: All the Ever Afters-The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother by Danielle Teller
Being strong does not disqualify you from being beautiful.
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From “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez:
There is always something left to love.
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Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
From Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
From Diggers by Terry Pratchett
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Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
Book- At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks.
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