Category: Books on Tap
“People like me have to make two lists: what they need and what they want. You keep the first list short, if you’re smart, and you burn the second one.”
“And then you find that you have no years left. You have days. That is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.”
“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on all fours.”
“The only way forward is to forget.”
“Her success exposed both the hypocrisy of her world and the possibility: of one person’s power to help another; of civilization’s ability to break down what it wrongly put up—that is, when blinded to its own constructs.”
“You can look back at the past, just don’t keep staring at it.”
“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
“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.
