Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“You can’t assimilate Indian ghosts. It’s too late!”
“I’d rather die charging like a rhino than bleating like a goat.”
“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you.”
“Books and ideas are like blood; they need to circulate, and they keep us alive.”
“They are the we of me.”
“We had more than any two people in the world. And then we fell down.”
“But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships.”
“Nothing prepares one for the discovery that there are people who have no conscience.”
“Stay alive.”
“Mrs. Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
“For kindness begins where necessity ends.”
