Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments when you shouldn’t be?”
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
“I was born with the devil in me . . . I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
The Great American Read
“We must never be a country that says there’s only one way to love, only one way to look, and only one way to live.”
“No coincidence, no story.”
“The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject.”
“The only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don’t fit the mold.”
“I don’t understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”
“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy.”
“But when you’re inside it, the closet is vast.”
