October 2012
2 posts
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“Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered, the less...”
– The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of...”
– The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
September 2012
7 posts
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“The government to you is what God is to agnostics—only to be invoked when...”
– Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
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“It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how...”
– Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
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“There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a...”
– State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
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“I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is...”
– Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
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“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong...”
– Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
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“How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in...”
– The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
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“I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate...”
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
August 2012
25 posts
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“It is…difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over...”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green
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“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last,...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“First the colors.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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“For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and...”
– The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“It was the seahorses themselves that she wanted to see as soon as she took her...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
– Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany,...”
– The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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“Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with...”
– Atonement, Ian McEwan
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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the...”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are...”
– The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
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“It wasn’t so much the whistling itself, Laila thought later, but the seconds...”
– A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
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“A dark wind makes it through the trees.
The sky is nervous. Black and blue.
...”
– I Am The Messanger, Markus Zusak
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“Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like...”
– The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time, Mark Haddon
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“That most moments were substantially the same did not detract at all from the...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“So much better to travel than to arrive.”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
– Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
July 2012
3 posts
6 tags
“Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well,...”
– The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to...”
– The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
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“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”
– The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
June 2012
25 posts
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“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these,...”
– The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats...”
– Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
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“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
– The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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“Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that...”
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
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“All of us are better when we’re loved.”
– No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod
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“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
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“Nothing in this book is true.”
– Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
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“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been...”
– Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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“I am haunted by humans.”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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“If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner...”
– Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin 