Continuing the “quotes from books” series, this batch of quotes is from books I read between May 2017 and August 2017. The tenth quote here sums up the year pretty nicely.
- “My mother always said that kindness was love in disguise.” –Dodger, Terry Pratchett
- “Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.” -from the preface of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu
- “I am not one thing. I am everyone and everything that has touched me. This is the basic principle of forensic science: every contact leaves a trace.” (accompanied by an illustration) –You Are Here, Jenny Lawson
- “It’s not moving on…it’s moving differently.” –Holding Up the Universe, Jennifer Niven
- From “A Short History of Silence” in The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit: (a) “If the right to speak, if having credibility, if being heard is a kind of wealth, that wealth is now being redistributed”; (b) “Silence protects violence.”
- From Elizabeth Wein’s author’s note at the end of The Pearl Thief: “This is what authors do: we make up stuff that might be true.”
- Quoted in Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places: “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” (Cesare Pavese)
- “It is hard to see who a person is, through all of those memories of who they were.” –When the English Fall, David Williams
- “How terribly hard it is to accept that other people feel what we feel.” –Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun
- “There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books.” –Among Others, Jo Walton
See previous installments in this series here:
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII
