I read 110 books in 2020 so it was hard to narrow it down, but here are my favorite 15! (10 was impossible)
No particular order, just a cover and a quote (in french or in english)!
I hope you find some great books to read next! (please read them if you can! They broke me in all the right places and then brought me back together.)
1. Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War, 2019.
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”
2. Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls Lost Legends, 2018.
“One minute you are breathing air, the next you are breathing fingers. Think you found a sandwich? It’s a planet. You just ate a planet.”
3. Christelle Dabos, Les disparus du Clairedelune (La Passe-Miroir #2), 2015.
“La première fois que je vous ai vue, je me suis fait une piètre opinion
de vous. Je vous croyais sans jugeote et sans caractère, incapable de
tenir jusqu'au mariage. Ça restera à jamais la plus grosse erreur de ma
vie.”
4. Stephen King, The Long Walk, 1999.
“That’s all I hope.
If there is an… an after, I hope it’s not dark. And I hope you can
remember. I’d hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who
I was or what I was doin’ there, or not even knowing that I’d ever had
anything different.”
5. William Goldman, The Princess Bride, 2003.
“There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection.”
6. Stephen King, It, 1986.
“We grew up, he thought. We didn’t think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in there it will be real: we’re all grownups now.”
7. Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1), 2016.
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.”
8. Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient, 2019.
“You become increasingly confortable with madness– and not just the madness of others, but your own. We’re all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
9. Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies (Le sang des promesses #2), 2003.
“Je comprends maintenant ce que tu as voulu dire quand tu m'as demandé : “Où serons-nous dans cinquante ans ?” Je ne sais pas. Mais partout où je serai, tu y seras. Nous rêvions de regarder l'océan ensemble. Eh bien, Nawal, je te le dis, je te le jure, le jour où je le verrai, le mot océan explosera dans ta tête et tu éclateras en sanglots car tu sauras alors que je pense à toi. Peu importe où je serai, nous serons ensemble. Il n'y a rien de plus beau que d'être ensemble.”
10. Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018.
“Sunsets are in disguise, covering truths, covering lies.”
11. Robert Charles Wilson, Spin, 2006.
“Des gens plus jeunes que moi m'ont demandé : Pourquoi n'as-tu pas paniqué ? Pourquoi personne n'a-t-il paniqué ? Il n'y a pas eu d'émeutes, de pillages ? Pourquoi votre génération a-t-elle laissé faire, pourquoi vous êtes-vous tous laissés entrer dans le Spin sans même un murmure de protestation ?”
12. Gerard Way, Apocalypse Suite (The Umbrella Academy #1), 2008.
“Don’t ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You’re beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.”
13. Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects, 2006.
“I just think some women aren’t made to be mothers. And some women aren’t made to be daughters.”
14. Elizabeth Acedevo, The Poet X, 2018.
“I look and feel like a myth.
A story distorted, waiting for others to stop and stare.”
15. Albert Camus, L’Etat de Siège, 1948.
“Vous avez cru que tout pouvait se mettre en chiffres et en formules !
Mais dans votre belle nomenclature, vous avez oublié la rose sauvage,
les signes dans le ciel, les visages d'été, la grande voix de la mer,
les instants du déchirement et la colère des hommes !”
