Month: March 2025

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes.” I have so many I decided to focus on just The Chronicles of St. Mary’s series by Jodi Taylor, which is full of funny and meaningful quotes. I ended up with 15 instead of 10, and there are SO MANY MORE to choose from. I really love this series. I only included the cover of the first book, as there are 14, plus short stories, in the series.

“Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn’t exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at”
― Jodi Taylor, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

“Thinking carefully is something that happens to other people”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“He was calm and soothing and had a reasonable explanation for everything. No woman should have to put up with that.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“The screaming redoubled. You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Silence holds no fears for me. I never feel the urge to fill it as so many other people do.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Exchange between Leon and Max:
“I just want you to tell me you love me sometimes.”
“Yes, you see I can’t do that.” He turned his head away. “I love you all the time.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, ‘Mfhbnnntx,’ and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, ‘Trout,’ and that was pretty much it.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Helen, in a white coat and stethoscope, effortlessly achieving the sort of discipline for which lesser women would require black leather and a hunting crop, indicated we should form a line. Being St Mary’s, we formed several clumps and a rhomboid.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Dr Maxwell. Why are you wearing a red snake in my office?’ ‘Sorry, sir. Whose office should I be wearing it in?”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

“She said nothing in a manner that conveyed volumes. I said nothing in a manner that I hoped conveyed my complete innocence. She said nothing in a manner that conveyed her disbelief in my complete innocence. I said nothing in a manner that conveyed my hurt at this lack of trust in me. She said nothing in a manner that effortlessly conveyed the message that Dr Bairstow wished to see me at his earliest convenience and to collect Dr Peterson while I was at it.”
― Jodi Taylor, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

“Mr Markham, the box marked “Sex” is not an invitation. Please amend the details and apologize to Mrs Partridge.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“I know the whole world isn’t really out to get me. I’m pretty sure Switzerland is neutral.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Teenagers are inarticulate, acne-ridden lumps of inert matter. The only way you can ever induce movement is by trying to separate one from its mobile phone. And if you can do that, then the only way you can stop it attacking is with rhinoceros tranquilizer.”
― Jodi Taylor, Roman Holiday

“Attention span of a – what was I saying?”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Oh, that’s easy. At street level, it’s Middle English. The clergy speak Latin. Your social superiors will speak Middle French. Remember that most words have a final e, which you should pronounce if the following word begins with a consonant. Except when that consonant is h, w, or y, of course. If the following word begins with a vowel, then that e is silent. Every letter in a word should be pronounced. If in any doubt, remember the ph in banana is always silent.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time

How about you? Any favorite quotes?

**Thank you to the host of Top Ten Tuesday, That Artsy Reader Girl.