Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“Books and ideas are like blood; they need to circulate, and they keep us alive.”
“They are the we of me.”
“We had more than any two people in the world. And then we fell down.”
“But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships.”
“Nothing prepares one for the discovery that there are people who have no conscience.”
“Stay alive.”
“Mrs. Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
“For kindness begins where necessity ends.”
“If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place.”
“All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.”
“Why, to get the things I want badly enough, I’d do anything, hurt anybody, throw anything away.”
