Category: Brown Bagger’s Book Group
“It’s a great art, is rowing. It’s the finest art there is. It’s a symphony of motion.”
“Difficulties are inevitable.”
“Our house is the future as well as the past.”
“Whatever else it was, it was one hell of a summer.”
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
“Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.”
“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
“One theory here: the deanery is annoyed with our requests for parity and, weary of waiting for us to retire, has decided to kill us. Let the academic year begin!”
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
