Tag: book club
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
“Her success exposed both the hypocrisy of her world and the possibility: of one person’s power to help another; of civilization’s ability to break down what it wrongly put up—that is, when blinded to its own constructs.”
“The women had a story to tell, even if the world wasn’t quite yet ready to hear it, and their story began with three simple words. We were there.”
JMRL Same Page Community Read 2026
Brown Baggers December 2025 Selection meeting
“You can look back at the past, just don’t keep staring at it.”
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you
“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
“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.”
