Book Club Fiction Quotes

#1. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#2. Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing to engage in pride over fear and to admit the possibility that his sacrifice was hers, too. His sacrifice was something she had been able to give her country.

Lea Carpenter

#3. There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Amy Hatvany

#4. Alan shrugged. "I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president - " "Co-president," Sputnik corrected. " - is kind of like being declared King of Nerds." "Co-king," Sputnik asserted.

J.M. Richards

#5. Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn't say it loudly enough. Maybe I didn't say it enough times.

Amy Hatvany

#6. The girl I'd been just an hour ago was gone; she'd been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.

Amy Hatvany

#7. At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?

Fredrik Backman

#8. Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I'll have AB positive', I told Josh when he returned from the dance floor, 'What's it made of? Apples and Bananas?'
-Belle Goose

The Harvard Lampoon

#10. Joshua is on probation," Seth explains.
"Oh my God. A miscreant angel.

Katie Klein

#11. Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Janet Goodfriend

#12. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany

#13. He didn't see the look his brothers shared or overhear the vow they made to one another
that if any one of the four of them were to make it back from Ticonderoga, it would be Iain.

Pamela Clare

#14. Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.

Fernando Pessoa