Looking For a Good Book

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted any quotes here.  These are quotes from the books I’ve read and reviewed here.  You can read some of the previous selections of quotes here, here, and here.

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“Developing the artist is more interesting to me than developing product”
    John McDaniel in O’Neill by Jeffrey Sweet

“Biggest footprints a man leaves behind are the people whose lives he crosses, intentional or not. And there’s no way to cover those tracks.”
     Three by Jay Posey

“I have to have all the possible information, about even the tiniest picture. That’s the way I am, I have to know everything; the painter’s biography, where his studio was, what were the technical conditions, who commissioned the painting, the political context, the aesthetic quarrels of the day, how the paints were chemically composed – everything.”
     The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry

“Isn’t an American a European who missed the boat home?”
     The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains?”
     The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon

“You miss the strangest things when you lose someone.”
     A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

“It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of lonliness.”
     A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman

“I didn’t spend a decade being paranoid for nothing.”
     Get Blank by Justin Robinson

“What is a chameleon’s color, when all pretense is stripped away?”
     The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter by Rod Duncan

“Winter is a creditor from which no one can hide.”
   The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter by Rod Duncan