Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“One theory here: the deanery is annoyed with our requests for parity and, weary of waiting for us to retire, has decided to kill us. Let the academic year begin!”
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
“Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.”
“Mr Wooster, miss” he said “is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold.”
“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.”
“Redemption, transformation–God, how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn’t everyone?”
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it?”
