Quotes Worth a Look

When I read, I often find author’s have exquisite sentences. I save them in a special notebook. Here are a few I’ve sincerely appreciated.

She maneuvered through the cranky traffic…tempers caught fire as easily as backyards.

Kristin Hannah in Magic Hour

Perhaps there is a secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society  bby Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Barrows

As they crossed the street, the moon, at half-phase, spread creamy light over the world, trannsforming the sidewalk to pale ribbons and putting thick shadows beneath the trees…

LaVyrle Spencer in Home Song

The teutonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones; not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive.

Bernhard Schlink in The Reader

 

Looking ahead:

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