Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
Brown Baggers Book Club Selections
“It make one’s mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
“When you hear stories from people like you, you feel less alone. When you feel less alone, and like you have a community of people behind you, alongside you, I believe you can live a better life.”
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
“In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists”
“If you wish success you must master the American language . . . I can tell in your face that you will not learn it.”
“How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing? You kill them in the middle of nowhere.”
“Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.”
“Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be. And then she said, ‘Déjate querer.’ Let yourself be loved.”
“I bow my head in my hands, den I lift it up again”
“That was my fight: to continue to do little things for people around me, so no one would find fault in my demeanor and misattribute it to my religion.”
