I LOVE World Book Day So bc lately it's hard to think of things that bring me joy, have a thread of books that mean something special to me.

“You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.”

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

"It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes, and you may lay to that."

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

"But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought here to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

"Tendrá fuego en el cabello
alas y escamas en la piel
un aullido en la garganta
y la muerte en la retina"

El Clan de la Loba by Maite Carranza
(this story is set near my hometown! it was the most exciting thing for baby me)

"Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours."

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Llevaba un huracán por dentro"

La Ciudad de las Bestias by Isabel Allende.

"On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?"

The Green Mile by Stephen King

"Does it ever stop? The wanting you?"

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.

"And then I imagine myself spitting in his face. And then I imagine licking it off his cheek and kissing him. (Because I'm disturbed. Ask anyone.)"

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
(Yes this is my fave quote of this book bc Baz represents me okay)

"My living laughing love —
I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head as he held me upon that next best bed."

The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy.

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (LIFE. CHANGING.)

Anyway those are only a few of my special books, tell me about yours!