{"id":2584,"date":"2019-06-25T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:35:17","slug":"book-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/book-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When I read, I love to lift out quotes that speak to me and remind me of the story long after I’ve read the last page. Here are three to ponder. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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… good friends are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps in growing pains.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dumplin’ (a kindle version) by Julie Murphy<\/p>\n

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A corner is always temporary; it can be backed out of. Humans forget this…and flail away fruitlessly whenever they find themselves stuck. It is better to sit still, maybe take a na, right there in the offending “corner” and see what come to one. Like magic, after a rest, all corners develop windows? Passageways, doors!<\/em><\/p>\n

page 52 of The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker<\/p>\n

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My grief is not like a cloud or an atmosphere: it has an actual physical weight and presence. Sometimes it assumes the shape of a heavy blanket or tiny weights suspended from every finger , lobe and eyelash; or it can be a boulder or a suitcase needing to be pushed or dragged.<\/em><\/p>\n

page 46 in The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild<\/p>\n

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When I read, I love to lift out quotes that speak to me and remind me of the story long after I’ve read the last page. Here are three to ponder. Enjoy!   … good friends are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps in growing pains. Dumplin’ (a kindle version) by Julie Murphy   A corner is always temporary; it can be backed out of. Humans forget this…and flail away fruitlessly whenever they find themselves stuck. It is better to sit still, maybe take a na, right there in the offending “corner” and see what come to one. Like...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-writings-distinct-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}