Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.”
“I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
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“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”
“On the far side. What if it’s just…noise?”
“Niceness does not break with white solidarity and white silence. In fact, naming racism is often seen as not nice, triggering white fragility.”
“Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not begin or end: they merely change form.”
“The library is a whispering post.”
“The language of love was the same as the language of medicine.”
“If we could talk to animals, goes the song.”
“The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place.”
