The Facts
The Quote Quilt is a 20-week contest celebrating DDG’s 20th Anniversary. The idea is to create a story built entirely out of 20 consecutive quotes from 20 different books, one week at a time. Each week readers can submit one quote from any favorite book of theirs which builds upon the prior quotes thereby extending the story. The winning entry of the week will will be added to the story. The developing story will be posted here on the Bulldog each Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. Entries should be posted below in the comments box and state which book the quote is from and which week of the contest it is being submitted for.
The Payoff
Everlasting Fame and a $5 Gift Certificate which can be picked up at the bookstore.
The Rules
There is no limit to the number of entries which can be submitted, nor the number of weeks one person can win. The only rules are that the book must be in print and the quote must logically further the narrative of the story. The quote can be as short as a single sentence or as long as paragraph. It is true that first person quotes, and quotes which are not too heavy on proper nouns have a leg up. Each book from which a winning quote entry is used will be put in a special display at the store.
This Week’s Winner
Week 2 winner is Kelly Boivin for a quote from Douglas Adams’ Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul.
The Quilt To Date
“I didn’t set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Submit your entry below!
“I like it better here where I can just sit quietly and smell the flowers.” The Story of Ferdinand
“I needed to get cracking in the university library. I didn’t know who my opponents would be, but I couldn’t be caught off guard, they would be gunning for me from behind every bookshelf.”
A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien
A sparrow slanted across the sunlight, onto the window ledge, and cocked his head at me. His eye was round and bright.
For Week 3 – From the Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
“No matter what he does, every person on Earth plays a central in the history of the world and normally he doesn’t know it.” The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Here is another quote submission.
Muriel Barbury, “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”:
All our family acquaintances have followed the same path: their youth spent trying to make the most of their intelligence, squeezing their studies like a lemon to make sure they’d secure a spot among the elite, then their entire lives wondering with a flabbergasted look on their faces why all that hopefulness has led to such a vain existence. People aim for the stars and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd. That might deprive you of a few good moments in your childhood but it would save you a considerable amount of time as an adult — not to mention the fact that you’d be spared at least one traumatic experience, i.e. the goldfish bowl.