Since I've done this "assignment" before for TTT here, here, here, here, and here, I am modifying my list to just include some favorite quotes from books I've read (or reread) this past year and a half.
“Grace has a grand laughter in it.”
― Gilead
“When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.”
― Unsheltered
“The problem with believing is you have to believe that believing will work, you have to believe in belief.”
― There There
“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing.”
― The Thing About Luck
“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Becoming
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.”
― Educated
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Because if you're tangled up in someone else, if your futures are tied that way, if that's real and if you know when it happens - then it means you know who you belong to, and you know whose fates are tied to yours, whether you like it or planned it or not, whether they still exist in the same world with you or they don't, and I think that's where everything begins and ends. I think that's everything.”
― Picture Us in the Light
“My love isn't divided," she said. "It is multiplied.”
― The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”
― Going Bovine
“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”
― True Grit
“His brain sits before its cash register again, charging him for old shames as if he has not paid before”
― Less
