Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“Once again, the library had my back. I left feeling a lot less desperate and scared than when I’d arrived.”
“I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.”
“And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.”
“Only horses were honest, in the end.”
“Because success in life didn’t just happen. Things didn’t always work out, no matter where or how you were raised.”
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.”
“If you never get sadness, how do you know what happy is like?”
“Sometimes you have to do one thing bad in order to do another thing good.”
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“Crooked world, straight world, same rules – everybody had a hand out for the envelope.”
“There was a girl.”
