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"One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened."
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

"At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?"
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"Did you ... touch me right after you called me brat?"
He shakes his head.
"Why not?" I ask.
"You were too intoxicated to give your consent."
"And?"
He frowns. "If, while you were drugged, I had touched you like I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to call myself a real man."
― Mya Robarts, The V Girl: a Coming of Age Story

"Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love."
― Janet Goodfriend, For the Love of Art

"You've got to look out for number one. If you're really worried about not being spoiled, just pound on through that book guys. Just read the shit out of it."
― Veronica Belmont

"I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess."
― Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club

"I soon forgot about my bedraggled appearance. Until, that is, an old man shuffled in and propped himself, hunched and wheezing, over the check-in desk. Karen asked him if he needed assistance.
"No," he grunted sucking on his teeth, "your wet-T-shirt librarian with the punk rock hair is helping me out just fine."
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

"To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it."
― Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life

"It takes courage to knowingly read a book that is challenging some of your cherished beliefs."
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars."
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."
― Joyce Rachelle

"For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community"
― Bell Hooks

"He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives."
― Carol Anshaw

"The 'coons had enjoyed a real party, and my trashcan had been the piñata! They'd obviously indulged in an evening of feasting on our wares and then staggered off the property loaded up with our birdseed as a little take-home gift!"
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

"He never had time to read on the outside, but here he joins a book club where they discuss The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is The Night with a fervent young professor who seems unaware that anyone other than F. Scott Fitzgerald has ever written a book."
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"Russell's lips were just framing an expression of disapproval when Grace stepped around Violet. His pupils expanded, making his dark eyes look even darker. There was something almost greedy in this look he bestowed on Grace.
--Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia"
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

"I wonder," said Angelina, sitting on the loveseat next to Violet, "if he is mentally fragile."
"What do you mean?" said Violet.
"He fought in the war," replied Angelina. "He might fall apart, fly off the handle, go off the rails…"
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

"Mr. Russell—this is awkward—Mother is not happy—She told me never to see you again."
The force of his glare thrust her back on her heels.
--Farewell My Life, Buona Notte Vita Mia"
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

"The face that greeted me, however, was far from welcoming, it was a miniature stick insect of a woman with wiry white hair and enormous glasses that emphasized her heavily wrinkled face. She blinked twice and looked me up and down. By the look on her face, she wasn't that impressed with what she saw. "Who is it, Ethel?"
She responded, "It's some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash."
And I thought I'd already reached the lowest point of my day."
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

"They had read a fantastic book, a doorstop novel from India with colors and spices and music and poetry spilling out into the margins, a seven-course literary feast. After reading a brief biographical note about the author, they always went around the table. When it was Maya's turn, she was ready with yellow Post-its stuck in between the pages that held the paragraphs she wanted to read aloud. "I thought this book was like a tapestry," she'd begun, hearing her own voice sounding excited but focused. "Poetic and romantic descriptions of nature and art combined with a social message that's both brutal and-
provocative"
― Anne Østby, Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate

"I want to start a book club. But instead of reading books, we trash talk and drink wine."
― Tanya Masse

"What would happen if he returned and asked permission to be Grace's suitor? Well, she would not stand for it. Per l'amor di Dio, for the love of God, Grace was only seventeen, and it was the height of rudeness to abandon the mother for the daughter. If he did return, she would see that he was sent away.
--Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia"
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

"He wasn't quite what you'd hoped for, was he, Mother dear?" remarked Violet.
"I was trying to help you," said Angelina, her cheeks warming.
Violet folded her arms and gave her a look.
"I'm never going to invite him again." Angelina weaved unsteadily on her high heels as she made her way towards the stairs and the privacy of her dingy room.
"You won't have to," replied Violet. "He'll be back.
--Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia"
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

"I intend to marry her," he said, without turning around.
"Not if I have any say in it."
"What makes you think she will listen to you? You have nothing to offer her. I have enough funds to provide for a wife and family. I could take her to Italy, to Venice. She could perform with the best musicians in the world."
"You are not marrying her."
"How are you going to stop me?"
"You will have to walk over my corpse.

--Farewell My Life, Buona Notte Vita Mia"
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

"No truly intelligent person shows off the number of books they read in a week, month, or year."
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"I had to Marie Kondo the book club. It did not spark joy."
― Lisa Lin, The Year of Cecily

"La corda che ti salva dall'inondazione può diventare un cappio attorno al collo."
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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