Top 10 quotes from Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl!

In Honor of Rainbow's Nanowrimo Pep talk I posted a few days ago I decided to stick to my Rainbow Rowell theme and choose my top 10 favorite quotes from Fangirl, the novel she started during Nanowrimo. This was so much harder then I thought it would be, because well turns out Rainbow is even more BOSS then I already thought she was (which is insane honestly!haha). So I cheated a little and added a few extras to the list since I couldn't make up my darn mind! But hey, more awesomeness for you:)

This book made me laugh out loud and ugly cry in more then one sitting.It is honestly one of my favorite books and after you finished reading these, you will know why...Enjoy!

(PS. Spoilers included)

“Don't expect me to tell you apart," Reagan said when this became a routine.

"I have short hair," Wren said. "and she wears glasses."

"Stop," Reagan groaned, "don't make me look at you. It's like The Shiningin here.”

“Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
“It sets a dangerous precedent.”
“For avoiding pain?”
“For avoiding life.”

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

“You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
“I’m not really a book person.”
“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me”

“Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. 
"Are you awake?"
"Have you been watching me sleep?"
"Yes, Bella. Are you awake?"
"No.” 

“No," Cath said, "Seriously. Look at you. You’ve got your shit together, you’re not scared of anything. I’m scared of everything. And I’m crazy. Like maybe you think I’m a little crazy, but I only ever let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, I’m a complete disaster.” 

“You look ridiculous,” Wren said.
“What?”
“That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously.
“Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.”
Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it
“He must mean the house phone,” Wren said.
“Who calls the house phone?”
“Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.” 

“No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about you—I like that better.”

Cath closed her eyes and felt tears catch on her cheeks.

“I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.” He kissed her mouth. “Look at me.”

She did.

“I choose you over everyone.”

“What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.”

“Why do we write fiction?" Professor Piper asked.
Cath looked down at her notebook.
To disappear.”

“I feel sorry for you, and I'm going to be your friend."

"I don't want to be your friend," Cath said as sternly as she could. "I likethat we're not friends."

"Me, too. I'm sorry you ruined it by being so pathetic.”

“How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge.”

“There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.”

“Reagan scowled at Cath. "Are you Zack, or are you Cody?”

“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.”

The best right??Definitely! haha. Comment down below guys what did you think about Reagen, Cath and Levi? What was your favorite quote? Let me know and we can gush about it together:)

Book Review : Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
Publisher/Year: Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2012
Genre: Young Adult , Fantasy 

‘She dropped into a crouch. As the blade sailed overhead, she lashed out at his legs. He didn't even have the time to cry out as she swept his feet out from under him, nor did he have the time to raise his weapon before she crouched over his chest, the iron-coated tip of the staff at his throat. She brought her mouth close to his ear. "My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered.’

Plot

Celaena Sardothien is a 18 year old trained assassin who is sentenced to work in the most dangerous mines in Endovier after getting caught by the King of Adarlan. Three years later she is given the choice to either keep working in the mines until her inevitable death or to fight for a chance to become the King's Champion and to have her freedom back. To her there is no choice.Live or die, she will be free.

Level of Feels

Honestly I expected to be a raving maniac throughout this book the way everyone on booktube and on the book blogasphere were raving about it but I kept my cool the entire time. I did shed an almost tear at one point but I don't even remember why. Hmmm 

More on the plot and My Thoughts
*Spoilers*

So we start off this book when we meet Calena for the first time while working in the mines in Endovier also known as a death camp. The crown prince Dorian who is a total dream boat by the way and his guards which includes Chaol arrive at the mines and escort Celaena to Adarlan. Ofcourse Celaena has no idea why she is being taken back to the palace after she had been sentenced to death and suspected that the King wished to have her killed instead of waiting for her to die in the mines. It is only after she met with Dorian that he informed her that he wants to sponsor her in the competition that will determine who will become the King's champion. This competition will be grueling and Celaena will have to compete against 24 of Erilea's most dangerous criminals because the best part of becoming the King's champion is the chance at freedom! The prospect of freedom is what initially sells Celaena to the idea of becoming the champion to the man who had sent her to her death and who has destroyed every inkling of magic that once was in Erilea.

Once at the castle Celeana starts her training with Chaol and meets her fellow competitors. Most of whom don't seem like much of a threat but even Celaena has to do a double take when she spots Cain. A man who is as vicious and skilled as he looks and maybe even more so. While focussed on the competition and her training Celaena finds herself not only slowly but surely entangled in some kind of love triangle but she also discovers that there is something lurking in the castle and as champions begin to turn up dead all around the castle the competition begins to take a dark turn. Celeana is visited by a Fairy queen who had died more than a thousand years ago and told that there is more at stake for her in this championship. It is no longer her freedom that is on the line but the future of Erilea hangs in the balance.


With everything around her falling apart Celeana has to try and keep her barings in the competition as well as in the castle. She's not safe anywhere. Will her rein as Ardarlan's greatest assassin come to an end  or will she win her freedom.

*****

I went into this book with my expectations fairly sky high. Literally everyone was raving about it and I couldn't find one bad review on the interwebs. I obviously had to pick it up for myself and see what all the hype was about.

First of all I have to say that I actually did enjoy reading this book. The main character Celaena was funny, bad ass and whip smart which was such a great change of pace for me since I've been reading a lot of books where the heroine is such a Judy broody downer (haha you get my point). Celaena was nothing like that she could be a little too concerned about her appearance at times but she made up for it by being a total book nerd which is something you wouldn't expect from Adarlan's greatest assassin but made for a really good character trait. Side note: I think we could be the best of friends:)

I enjoyed the fight scenes but with the exception of the last duel they were all pretty predictable to me. I absolutely loathed Cain I wanted him to die pretty much from our first introduction, he basically just gave me goose bumps and not in a good way in a way that makes you want to go take a shower and scrub yourself raw.

To me the love triangle wasn't so much as forced but I don't think that It was necessary to the plot at all. I don't know maybe I'll have a bit more clarity once I've read the second book but in the first one it just seemed like Dorian was a forced love interest. I mean she doesn't even really like him all that much(-_-)
Over all I did enjoy this book. As I said before I wasn't in love with the book I can probably go a while without finding out what happens next but I wont because apparently the second and the third books are much better. Here's to hoping that's true!

Who should read this book?

They say that if you are a fan of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones that you will love this book but I personally do not agree. A: nothing will ever be as good as the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy and B: Fans of Game of Thrones will read this and think that it is a total girl fest which I'm sure they will not enjoy as much. I will however recommend this to people who loved reading Grave Mercy and Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers.
Read the first 2 Chapters of Throne of Glass here

Have you read this book? What were your thoughts? We should discuss:)