Category: Brown Bagger’s Book Group
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
“At that moment, for the first time ever, I felt I’d become a part in the machine of society. I’ve been reborn, I thought.”
“I believe in Christmas and the New World. I believe that there is good in each of us no matter who we are or what we believe in.”
“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might’ve told her, not just the clean and productive.”
Brown Baggers Book Club Selections
“When you hear stories from people like you, you feel less alone. When you feel less alone, and like you have a community of people behind you, alongside you, I believe you can live a better life.”
“In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists”
“How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing? You kill them in the middle of nowhere.”
“That was my fight: to continue to do little things for people around me, so no one would find fault in my demeanor and misattribute it to my religion.”
“I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”
