Category: Brown Bagger’s Book Group
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
“The women had a story to tell, even if the world wasn’t quite yet ready to hear it, and their story began with three simple words. We were there.”
Brown Baggers December 2025 Selection meeting
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you
“I have learned that we must dwell on the highs and not the lows.”
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
The best days are the first to flee.
“Tell me every single thing. And don’t leave anything out.”
“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
“It’s about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.”
“And then there was Jane.”
