Book Club Quotes

“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

“We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent.
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― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

“If you can be heard then you exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“My reasons? Michael’s relationship with God is real whether or not God is the transcendent power represented in the Bible.”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

“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

“Visto che siamo al mondo, stiamo tutti morendo.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“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

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

“Marx era un lettore prodigioso e Sadie gli sembrava quel genere di libro che si può leggere e rileggere molte volte, scoprendo sempre qualcosa di nuovo”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I feel the way I always feel in Book Club. The way I believe we all feel. Safe.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“Is DREAMERS the truth?
It captures something truthful. The joy of racing from what doesn't matter toward what does, surrounded by the tiny group of people on the planet who understand you...
But capturing something truthful isn't the same as telling the truth.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The California Dreamers

“That picture had been taken so long ago, in another life, that the girl is a stranger.
Her stance is wide, confident...she gazes off to her right so you can see her determined profile, and her sunlit hair, never cut, is a wild, bright mass dancing in the wind.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The California Dreamers

“I'd made the choice to be different from my true self.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“...intimacy is about truth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If you love a living writer, buy their books, support them in a meaningful way, otherwise it's all just performative love, which only makes you feel good about yourself, but does nothing to help the cause you say you care about.

You won't lose anything by missing out on two cups of coffee to buy one or two books by your favorite thinker, poet or novelist, but that little gesture of tangible support means more to an author than a hundred likes.

Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake. Booze makes you forget life, books bring you to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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

“The wife belongs to a book club. All they do is moan about their husbands. They never talk about the bloody books at all.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places

“There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“She decimated humanity for her own chance at living it.”
― Jennifer Lauer, THE GIRL IN THE ZOO

“Leah had not realized until she sat down at the table with her book club friends that she'd been waiting all year for this moment. To reunite with women who understood and didn't judge her, and women whom she could call friends.”
― Rochelle Alers, The Beach House

“Sinking into fictional worlds or analyzing a memoir was a chance to step away from my day-to-day problems and just be.”
― Amelia Simone, Match Play

“...the women from my book club are there. Most importantly, though, they've been a refuge for my own thoughts and ideas. They've helped bolster me when I needed it, given me perspectives I hadn't considered, and valued my opinions.”
― Crystal J. Bell, The Lamplighter

“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It is exceptional whether it reaches 100 readers or 100 million.”
― S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour, The Covert Buccaneer

“Soy el retoño estéril de una raza de la que no sé nada, ni siquiera si ha desaparecido”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Autumn leaves don't fall; they fly.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“He had created a son—not in a conventional manner, nor one a DNA test would confirm, but certainly in the most important sense. He wondered where the boy was now and what he was doing, the product of biological alchemy and the man’s greatest and most secret success.”
― Dee A. Replogle, Jr.

“If you love a living writer, buy their books, support them in a meaningful way - you won't lose anything by missing out on two cups of coffee to buy one or two books by your favorite thinker, poet or novelist, but that little gesture of tangible support means more to an author than a hundred likes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Coffee makes you alert,
books make you awake.
Booze makes you forget life,
books bring you to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth