
Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups


“I bow my head in my hands, den I lift it up again”

“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.”

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“It was easier to lie when you believed the lie.”

“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.”

“do you know what it’s like to live/someplace that loves you back?”

“Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”

“Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”

“do you know what it’s like to live/someplace that loves you back?”

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
