Quotes from books that I loved:
Owlish by Dorothy Tse
literary fiction
Love is blind, as the saying goes. Although, in the case of Professor Q, it would be more accurate to say that love had rearranged his vision.
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
literary fiction
The happiest years are the shortest, we only notice them after they're gone.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
historical fiction, literary fiction
Evil is not what we should fear. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.
In all this madness, there is only one beast whose existence you doubt. And you are not thinking of God, also known as Whoever. You are thinking of that most impossible of all mythical creatures: the Honest Politician.
Dr. No by Percival Everett
literary fiction, humor
I am, in fact, a mathematician of a sort. But I use the name Wala Kitu. I study nothing.
I have spent my career in my little office on George Street in Providence contemplating and searching for nothing. I have not found it. It is sad for me that the mere introduction to my subject of interest necessarily ruins my study. I work very hard and wish I could say that I have nothing to show for it.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
sci-fi, time travel
I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.
I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.
The Jigsaw Puzzle King by Gina McMurchy-Barber
middle grade
Every one of us is like the pieces of a puzzle. Each one unique and with our own special place where only we can fit, and without every one of us, the picture wouldn’t be complete.
