Quick Quotes Round Two

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

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.

People participated in it through September 2018, coming up with most marvelous quotes for the given prompts! Now we start it again, and watch the fun begin.

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 Two is:

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.

[Prof. Maxim Trevelyan]

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

--- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

[Emily Spencer]

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Silvana Mandeville]

Just close your eyes and keep your mind open.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans have been sent!

Our next prompt for Quick Quotes Round Two is:

A one-liner from an action movie

From This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

Didn't you see it coming?

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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.

This second post was delayed a few days by the permissions of Sky and Emily, so that they may be posted weekly on Saturday.

[Emily Spencer]

Tell freedom I said hello.

From Wither by Lauren DeStefano

[Silvana Mandeville]

I was afraid for all my life, right up until the day I knew my life was ending.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

[Avery Hill]

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope

The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo

[Prof. Maxim Trevelyan]

The sooner, the better!

--- Hardy Boys Complete Series Set Books 1-66 by Franklin W. Dixon

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans have been sent!

The next prompt for Quick Quotes Round Two is:

Text from a nature guide

From Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

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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.

[Emily Spencer]

Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.

From Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

[Prof. Maxim Trevelyan]

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

--- Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

[Silvana Mandeville]

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Lucia Dinapoli]

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

—Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans have been sent!

Our last September prompt for Quick Quotes Round Two is:

A bit of good news

From Pistols for Two by Georgette Heyer

They haven't passed any of the pikes. From Stamford we have been following the Holloways.

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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.

[Aurelia West]

To have the people of Chattana holding their own light? What a statement that would make!

From A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

[Prof. Maxim Trevelyan]

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

--- Brida by Paulo Coelho

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans have been sent!

October Quick Quotes Round Two starts with -

A word used instead of 'said'

From The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

"Which of you is Wah-Wah?" I demanded.

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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.

[Silvana Mandeville]

"Rook, stop!" I shouted.

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson.

[Emily Spencer]

Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. “I don’t see any wine,” she remarked.

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll