Quotes from the books I’ve been reading. Previous collections are:
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He understood that things are serious to those who take them seriously, even if they seem frivolous or ridiculous to you personally.
The Beatles Are Here! “Tools of Satan, Liverpool Division” – Joe Queenan
What kind of literature is going to be produced in a society where there are no wars or epidemics or revolutions? I’ll tell you what: badly written novels about nice girls and boys falling in love, who make each other suffer without meaning to, and spend all their time crying and saying they’re sorry. Ridiculous.
The Library of Unrequited Love – Sophie Divry
The readers down here, they’re seriously depressed and that cheers me up.
The Library of Unrequited Love – Sophie Divry
You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone.
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Illusion is a story. Weave it with characters and feelings and love and loss and the audience will follow you as surely as the children of Hamlyn followed the Pied Piper.
The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter – Rod Duncan
Never repeat a trick, for the same eyes may not be misdirected twice. And never return to the same pitch.
The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter – Rod Duncan
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
-Edgar Allan Poe
She was some kind of rockabilly goddess, with a halter top showing off an uneasy détente between cleavage and tattoos.
Get Blank – Justin Robinson
I didn’t spend a decade being paranoid for nothing.
Get Blank – Justin Robinson
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