Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
Travel Planning Resouces at JMRL
“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.” — Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses)
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” Kurt Vonnegut
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. -Cy Young
“The rags of obedience, servility, reverential awe dropped in a belt around him.” Thomas Wolfe in Chapter 17
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” Graham Greene, “The Power and the Glory”
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, “Terrorism: Notes Toward a Definition”
“In school I remember learning that the Civil War ended a long time ago…. Folks here don’t see it that way. They think it’s still half-time.”
“Don’t be too sure I’m as crooked as I’m supposed to be.”
Child of My Heart
Books That Mattered
