Category: Brown Bagger’s Book Group
“When you hear stories from people like you, you feel less alone. When you feel less alone, and like you have a community of people behind you, alongside you, I believe you can live a better life.”
“In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists”
“How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing? You kill them in the middle of nowhere.”
“That was my fight: to continue to do little things for people around me, so no one would find fault in my demeanor and misattribute it to my religion.”
“I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”
“Standing in the doorway of the newspaper’s office, he watched the streetcar continue on its eastward way, and he knew that if he lived to be a hundred, he would never be more in love than he was now.”
“Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
“Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”
“Times have changed. But not times only.”
“Jefferson’s advice on how to win friends and influence people did not have much appeal for a pugnacious John Adams.”
