Tag: book club
“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.”
“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”
“It’s like it ain’t so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
The best days are the first to flee.
“Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day…
“Tell me every single thing. And don’t leave anything out.”
Howards End was a house: they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir.
“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.
“It’s about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.”