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Are you the kind of reader who keeps a book of favourite quotations? Do you highlight beautiful passages as you read? If so, you’re probably also fascinated by the “popular highlight” feature on Kindle. I am not promoting Amazon, but it is interesting to see the quotations that thousands of readers have all highlighted. Luckily, you don’t need to actually give Amazon money to see them. Below, I’ve selected five of the most popular queer books of the moment and their two most often highlighted quotations.
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
“To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding.”
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering.”
“You see, carrots become bright orange because it’s so dark in the ground. They make their own light because the sun never reaches that far—like those fish in the ocean who glow from nothing? So when you eat it, you take in the carrot’s will to go upward. To heaven.”
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
“Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow and water them deep, and in my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.”
“Careful. In nature, beauty is a warning. The pretty ones are often poisonous.”
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
“Words can wound—but they’re bridges, too. (Like the bridges that are all that Genghis left behind.) Though maybe a bridge can also be a wound? To paraphrase a prophet: Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside.”
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
“People who love each other fight. The opposite of love isn’t anger. It’s indifference. When people stop fighting, that’s when you should be worried.”
“Books should be an experience, he thought, not a trophy for having read them.”
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