In case you missed Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3: So, on November 22, 2024 I started a little book book, as I call it, but it is a journal of the books I have read with a few jotted thoughts, quotes I like, and stickers. I am an archivist and chronicler at heart, and I have been having so much fun journaling my reading experience this way. I thought it would be neat to share my favorite quotes from all the books I have read – in different parts of course.
“But mermaids- mermaids relish pain. Mermaids embrace pain. Mermaids accept the pain of discipline if far less than the pain of regret.”
“Pat loved the sound of a day to spend. It sounded so gloriously lavish to “spend” a whole day, letting its moments slip one by one through your fingers liked beads of gold.”
“It was the kind of cafe you went to for lattes on a first date, or to meet up with old friends over a pot of chai, or to read a book by the fire while sipping on a mug of hot chocolate with extra mini marshmallows.”
“Those were the sounds of his favorite people. As long as he could hear them, he was safe.”
“It was like some houses stopped breathing the moment their owners died.”
“The fire danced and twirled and then, unbelievably, it somehow grew two little flame hands , which it planted on its two little flame hips, and it waggled at me.”
“He’d whistled in the dark more than once in his life. And an imminent hurricane seemed very, very dark.”
“The world will drive a woman insane, then point and laugh at them.”
“It felt like they had been tricked into attending some Tupperware-candle-lingerie-medieval warfare – party where you technically didn’t to buy anything, but actually you kind of did.”
“But that’s life. It’s unpredictable and anything can happen at any time. Which is why you should live doing what makes you happy, what lights you up inside, what keeps that flame burning.”
” She was not the girl who admitted defeat, and she certainly never let go. She had never let go of anything.”
“Here’s the thing: Witches might eat you, but other than that, they generally respected your boundaries.”
“When I am perturbed, I like to walk. I feel slow and stupid when I sit, but walking seems to wake something up in my brain.”
And we have now made it to the end of October in my reading journey! The last and final post will be up before the New Year!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 