Category: Books on Tap
“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”
“It’s like it ain’t so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
“Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day…
Howards End was a house: they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir.
Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.
“He felt an uncertainty in the air, a feeling of change and of loss and of the gain of new and unfamiliar things.”
“In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.”
The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave.
“ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES
“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”
The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.
