Tag: Quotes
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
“And wasn’t it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.” Claire Keegan’s short novel Small Things Like These is so easy to become enamored…
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The White Album by Joan Didion
“Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.” (“In the Islands”) Published in 1979, The White Album is a collection of Didion’s essays that were previously included in magazines. These essays span a myriad of topics, from Didion’s thoughts on California, Hollywood, and Hawaii to the…
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Reading goals for 2023 (informed by Atomic Habits)
January has arrived with its usual buzz around New Year’s resolutions. So many of us are reflecting on 2022 and thinking of how we want to feel and what we want to achieve in 2023. I love this process of reflection and goal setting, but I’m always cautious about not setting the bar too high…
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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
“It is the hour of the pearl–the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.” I’m obsessed with the atmosphere Steinbeck created in Cannery Row. It’s a sort of liminal space where thoughts, hopes, and dreams can run wild and judgment dissipates, if only for a brief while. I read this book…
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QUOTE: Thornton Wilder
“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” ~ Our Town by Thornton Wilder So true! Often times we’re so busy and caught up in living our own lives that we neglect to stop and appreciate the world around us. WE’RE ON A SPINNING PLANET IN SPACE, PEOPLE. If that isn’t amazing, then I don’t…
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QUOTE: Shakespeare
“In jest, there is truth.” ~ King Lear by Shakespeare Oh, Shakespeare- how wise you are! This quote from his tragedy King Lear is short, simple, and definitely true. People often use humor to mask the harsh truth. Don’t we all, at times? That’s why I love when there are Fools in his plays, because they give the best…
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QUOTE: Michael Crichton
“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.” ~ The Lost World by Michael Crichton Sounds like something Sherlock Holmes would say, doesn’t it? Interestingly enough, this quote is from Michael Crichton’s novel The Lost World, which is the sequel to Jurassic Park. I loved this quote so much when I first read it that I immediately wrote it down to…
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QUOTE: Maggie Stiefvater
“All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.” ~ The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater This passage appears in the prologue of Maggie Stiefvater’s novel The Dream Thieves, the second book in the Raven Cycle series. It makes…
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QUOTE: Jandy Nelson
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before – you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.” ~ I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson How adorable…
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QUOTE: Stieg Larsson
“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.” ~ The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson I’m not really sure if I agree with this statement or not. In the mystery that takes place in The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson, I guess that this idea is sort of applicable.…
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