“I glanced further down the tree-flanked corridor, sunlight trickling through the overhead canopy of trees and flickering at me like the headlight of a ghostly locomotive–hurtling toward me, its whistle shrieking, ‘Get out of the way before I hurt you.’ That was perhaps the most repeated phrase I had heard throughout the course of myContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
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Book Quote of the Day
“The Dominican friar Timothy Radcliffe wrote that God can never tell you not to love someone. God can only tell you to do a better job loving someone. (God is somewhat better at this than I.)” –Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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[A group of parents are dealing with the fact that their four-year-olds are voraciously craving blood, and they seem to prefer their mothers’.] “The wonderful thing about breastfeeding is that it’s free, she had read. But was it? Did it cost her nothing? Because if so, her time and energy and mental health must beContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“Now, I know what it means to stand here on the Pomerol plateau, on the right bank of the Gironde estuary. I know about its pockets of rare blue clay, and that when my boots crunch through the crumbly marl, a million little merlot babies drink from the dense earth beneath, ripening navy and opulentlyContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“It used to be that a handshake was all you needed. It was how a conversation began and ended, how children were conceived, how milk was delivered. But we now live in more casual times. Ours is an age in which you can’t check your coat without some fellow trying to spoon with you. PeopleContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
[Daisy has magical powers that involve being able to kill bad dudes with her baked goods] ” […] if there’s one thing that shouldn’t be rushed, it’s murder pies.” –Misha Popp, The Last to Pie
Book Quote of the Day
[Art historians Caroline and Patrick are unraveling the mystery behind the death of an artist with a twisted background and upbringing] Patrick: “Jesus, that family loves blackmail.” –Ellery Lloyd, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby.
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[A group of five friends have established a ritual of holding funerals for each other while they’re still alive to witness them] ‘I was eighteen,’ Marielle corrected, and Jordan gritted his teeth. There was a reason funeral honorees were supposed to be dead. ‘She entered our lives before we were twenty, when the whole worldContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“[…] Anna dreamed of letting go and getting lost. She could do it, slide into the scene and vanish. Her family had always been terrible at Where’s Waldo? But she […] rode back with Mom and Dad so she wouldn’t have to listen to Christopher’s ‘check in with work’ call the whole way. Mm-hmming whileContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“The Gentleman Scientist was fooling with something dangerous and knew it but either wasn’t willing to stop or couldn’t and in the end those things come to the same. I could stop which made me a fool to go on, but there was another factor. Something had happened to me. I had grown curious. ItContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
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