Bookclub Quotes & Sayings

Are they fighting or having a bookclub? — Mia Sheridan

It is to heal the body, soothe the mind, and give joy to the heart, Because it is your beloved's lap that you are sitting on. — David Michie

Of course we have a Tomorrow on the map ... located east of Today and west of Yesterday ... and we have no end of "times" in fairyland. Spring-time, long time, short time, new-moon time, good-night time, next time ... but no last time, because that is too sad a time for fairyland; old time, young time ... because if there is an old time there ought to be a young time, too; mountain time ... because that has such a fascinating sound; night-time and day-time ... but no bed-time or school-time; Christmas-time; no only time, because that also is too sad ... but lost time, because it is so nice to find it; some time, good time, fast time, slow time, half-past kissing-time, going-home time, and time immemorial ... which is one of the most beautiful phrases in the world. — L.M. Montgomery

What you would seem to be, be really. — Benjamin Franklin

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. — Jessa Gamble

For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce. — Peter Thomas Bauer

Of course the dust is building up unseen, but you learn to repress this for as long as it goes unnoticed by guests. And then one day someone moves a piece of furniture without your say-so, and everything comes into plain view. Dirt and scratch marks. Permanent damage to the parquet floor. By then it's too late. — Fredrik Backman

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football ... the perfect match for me. — Robin Van Persie

There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me. — Abby Fabiaschi

You only confuse hope with power once in life. — Abby Fabiaschi

Flying High with the Angels — Debbie Ann Egdell

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now." — Matthew Specktor

This is Luke's favorite thing to say about me, to remind me. I'm a survivor. It's the finality of the word that bothers me, its assuming implication. Survivors should move on. Should wear white wedding dresses and carry peonies down the aisle and overcome, rather than dwell in a past that can't be altered. The word dismisses something I cannot, will not, dismiss. — Jessica Knoll

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around. — Abby Fabiaschi

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink. — Jonathan Renshaw

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that. — Chelsea Cain