TTT: Quotes from Books I Read in 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes from Books I Read in 2025

____________________________________________

“All of history is one giant misunderstanding after another in a cacophony of voices, with the primary language, violence.”
― Daniel Nayeri, The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Words cast spells. You should know this as a writer. That's why it's called spelling, Labas.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“I came here to pray to God,” Ania screamed at me. “You pray to Money. You beg Money to grant you Land. You pray to Land to grant you Money. You are a convert to the gods of this country.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

“Grief is such a—oh, it is such a solitary thing; this is the terror of it, I think. It is like sliding down the outside of a really long glass building while nobody sees you.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I’ve heard grief described as love with nowhere to go.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“Books won't solve my problems, Harriet.'
'No, but they give your problems perspective. They allow your problems to breathe.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

-Anne