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

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

“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

“Russell’s lips were just framing an expression of disapproval when Grace stepped around Violet. His pupils expanded, making his dark eyes look even darker. There was something almost greedy in this look he bestowed on Grace.
--Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia”
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

“I wonder,” said Angelina, sitting on the loveseat next to Violet, “if he is mentally fragile.”
“What do you mean?” said Violet.
“He fought in the war,” replied Angelina. “He might fall apart, fly off the handle, go off the rails…”
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

“Mr. Russell—this is awkward—Mother is not happy—She told me never to see you again.”
The force of his glare thrust her back on her heels.
--Farewell My Life, Buona Notte Vita Mia”
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

“No truly intelligent person shows off the number of books they read in a week, month, or year.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“What would happen if he returned and asked permission to be Grace’s suitor? Well, she would not stand for it. Per l’amor di Dio, for the love of God, Grace was only seventeen, and it was the height of rudeness to abandon the mother for the daughter. If he did return, she would see that he was sent away.
--Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia”
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

“He wasn’t quite what you’d hoped for, was he, Mother dear?” remarked Violet.
“I was trying to help you,” said Angelina, her cheeks warming.
Violet folded her arms and gave her a look.
“I’m never going to invite him again.” Angelina weaved unsteadily on her high heels as she made her way towards the stairs and the privacy of her dingy room.
“You won’t have to,” replied Violet. “He’ll be back.
--Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia”
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

“I intend to marry her,” he said, without turning around.
“Not if I have any say in it.”
“What makes you think she will listen to you? You have nothing to offer her. I have enough funds to provide for a wife and family. I could take her to Italy, to Venice. She could perform with the best musicians in the world.”
“You are not marrying her.”
“How are you going to stop me?”
“You will have to walk over my corpse.

--Farewell My Life, Buona Notte Vita Mia”
― Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

“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

“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