Books of 2013

Hi, so same deal with the favorite books thing. I tried to follow all of Tyler's rules, but I think I may have forgotten a few...

 I only listed Champion because I read Legend and Prodigy in 2012....I think, I'm pretty sure.

 Okay, so I'm awful at remembering stuff like this....hopefully I got the whole list of things I read in 2013....
Favorite Books:

1. The Fault in Our Stars

2. Champion (Legend series)

3. Heroes of Olympus



Favorite Male Protagonists:

1. Augustus Waters (TFioS)

2. Jem Carstairs (The Infernal Devices)

3. Percy Jackson (PJO and HoO)



Favorite Female Protagonists:

1. Penryn Young (Angelfall series)

2. June Iparis (Legend series)

3. Annabeth Chase (PJO and HoO)



Favorite Not-So-Main-Or-Side-But-Still-Important Characters:

1. Simon Lewis (The Mortal Instruments)

2. Isabelle Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments)



Most Hated Characters: 

1. Sebastian/Jonathan (The Mortal Instruments)

2. Thomas (Legend series)



Most Unpredictable Ending: Champion, Kill Order

Most Feels Ruined: Champion, TID, TFioS

Best Last 100 Pages: Champion

Most Anticipated Releases: Light, House of Hades, Allegiant



Favorite Movies:

1. Catching Fire

2. City of Bones



Favorite YouTubers:

Danisnotonfire

AmazingPhil

Vlogbrothers

Favorite Quotes (I could go on and on with this one, so here's a few):
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”--TFioS

“For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.”--John Green, from the vlogbrothers' YouTube video "An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall"
 
"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."--Looking for Alaska
 
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.
Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”—TFioS, pg 60-61
 
“Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.”--PoBaW
 
"She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”
---PoBaW
 
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.” He looks toward the railway car’s open door, where streaks of dark water blanket the world. “You try to walk in the light.”—Day, Legend, pg 304
 
"We're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken."--Magnus Bane, Clockwork Prince
 
"They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite."--Will Herondale, Clockwork Prince
 
"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."--Magnus Bane, Clockwork Princess
 
“Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”
“Maybe you’re better,” said Simon."--Izzy and Simon, City of Fallen Angels
 
"Okay?"
"Okay."--TFioS



~Jasmine who's off to read some of The Darkest Minds before bed

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