
Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups


The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.

“Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.”

“From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us.”

Then who is my father?

“Friendship is more than skin deep.”

“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.”

“The memory is a living thing – it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives – the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.”

“Sooner or later…one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

“There’s a plot afoot all right, and I’ll gladly name the forces propelling it—hysteria, ignorance, malice, stupidity, hatred, and fear.”

“They’re poor because there’s a limited amount of good luck in this world, and they’ve never been given any.”
