Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“It was easier to lie when you believed the lie.”
“Standing in the doorway of the newspaper’s office, he watched the streetcar continue on its eastward way, and he knew that if he lived to be a hundred, he would never be more in love than he was now.”
“do you know what it’s like to live/someplace that loves you back?”
“Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
“Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”
“do you know what it’s like to live/someplace that loves you back?”
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
“A Cavalier Evaluation”
“We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
“Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”
Same Page 2019: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
