Tag: book club
“And then you find that you have no years left. You have days. That is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.”
“I don’t think it really matters whether you know a lot about books or not. That said, I don’t know that much myself. But I think what matters far more with a book is how it affects you.”
“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on all fours.”
“The only way forward is to forget.”
“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
