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Offline Rosen Trevithick Reading
07 Aug 2012, 11:55 AM | Post: #1

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Best quotes from indie books

I'm looking to compile a list of the most popular quotes from indie books. If you have any suggestions please nominate them below and I'll run a poll later.
Offline Susanne Reading I Woke Up This Morning by Stuart Ayris
07 Aug 2012, 12:29 PM | Post: #2

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

I'll nominate a quote from Stu Ayris' wonderful book Tollesbury Time Forever

"Forgive everybody everything. Recognise beauty wherever it is. Understand the nature of loss. Give love wherever you go. Anger devours the soul. Look deep or do not look at all. Imagination is life. Trust everybody, for at heart, people are good."

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07 Aug 2012, 12:59 PM | Post: #3

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

This is from Mama's Shoes by Rebecca Elswick:

"Living is just like buying a pair of shoes: if you choose the right ones, they'll take you where you want to go while keeping you comfortable. If you pick the wrong ones they'll still take you, but every step will hurt."
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08 Aug 2012, 11:22 AM | Post: #4

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

Thanks folks.
Is Rebecca D. Elswick an indie?
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08 Aug 2012, 12:13 PM | Post: #5

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

Mama's Shoes is listed as being published by Abbott Press, which is a self-pub platform, so... I guess??? (Her profile on GR also implies this.)
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08 Aug 2012, 12:59 PM | Post: #6

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

Thanks. I'll include that one then. It's a great quote.
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RE: Best quotes from indie books

It's a great book Smile

(Honestly one of the 4 best books I have *EVER* read.)

(And before anybody says it... yes, I have read more than four books!)

(If you count my own, anyway.)
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17 Feb 2013, 05:03 PM | Post: #8

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

Any new ones?
Offline ElaineG Reading Standers by Dale Brumfield
17 Feb 2013, 05:18 PM | Post: #9

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

“My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.”

From Young Men Shall See by Scott Thompson

“Showing other people your holiday pictures used to be shorthand for being very boring indeed,”
from Relationship Status by Amy Wilson

Let’s face it, you ran this home and took care of the girls, and aside from bringing home a great paycheck, he never lifted a finger. You have always done it all, dear. My heavens, you even had to schedule his colonoscopy last year. I mean, the man couldn’t arrange for a tube going up his own ass.

from Better off without him (Romantic Comedy) by Dee Ernst

On the way, Ben's dad Gordon thought he saw Ann Widdecomb and wanted to say hello. 8:05pm. Turned out it wasn't Ann Widdecomb, but a cross-dressing man on his way to a cross-dressing club.

from this thirtysomething life by Jon Rance

I yawned, splashed my face with cold water, shaved then brushed my teeth with Immac in error.

from Day of Reckoning by Roger Knowles

The adverts were back. A fat fake opera singer was selling insurance. Liz wanted to kill him. She wasn’t the only one.

from The Bird That Nobody Sees (Frugality - Book 2) by Stuart Ayris

Miles away, people huddled in front of the blue campfires of television sets,

From Kiss Me or Die by Scott Nicholson
Online DavidHaynes71 Reading Tollesbury Time Forever by Stu Ayris
17 Feb 2013, 05:24 PM | Post: #10

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RE: Best quotes from indie books

These two made me proper belly laugh.

Maureen Goes to Venice by Jonathan Hill.
"‘Excuse-moi,’ Maureen inexplicably said to the elderly gentleman she nearly felled.   Maureen was neither French, nor in France, nor talking to someone French, but whenever she was abroad, wherever she was abroad, French expressions slipped out like diarrhoea.

London the Doggy and Me by Rosen Trevithick
"How's Derek?" she asked. I thought about it. I could hear him upstairs trying to fart the Mission Impossible soundtrack. "Same as always," I told her. "

Just chuckled again after reading the post!

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