Tag Archives: bookish quotes

Bookshelves are like footprints

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.”    -Alan Bennett, British playwright photo: papyrus plant with books … Continue reading →

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Book Club Quotations

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

There’s a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word “banal” sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say “underedited,” I say “derivative.” The conversation goes around … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Bookshelf

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

photo credit I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991

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Structure of Sound

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

photo credit “Hearing the music get made, that was the thing: people and instruments and beaten-looking instruments aligning abruptly into a single structure of sound, flexible and alive.” -A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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Weekly Geeks: Quotables

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

photo credit The Weekly Geeks prompt: “We all have our favorite bookish quotations. Some well known, and some not so well known. This week for our geeky assignment I thought it would be fun for us to share some of … Continue reading →

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The World is a Book

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

photo credit “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” -St. Augustine

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Making Way for the Good

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

photo credit “Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.” The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

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Letting Go

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

  photo credit “She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They didn’t burst forth, glad to be free, they simply flew away, softly, gradually, so she … Continue reading →

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Chasing the Moon

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

photo credit “There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes.  But it’s like chasing the moon-just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.  I grieve and move on, but … Continue reading →

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Tasting Life

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

photo credit “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” -Anais Nin

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