Category: Brown Bagger’s Book Group
“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.”
“Redemption, transformation–God, how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn’t everyone?”
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it?”
“Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.”
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
There is no story that is not true … The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
“But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.”
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
