Jennas Book Club Quotes

#1. In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Salman Rushdie

#2. It can't all be dreams because a broken dream will kill you as surely as a nightmare will, and with a lot less mercy. At least the nightmares don't smile while they take you down.

Seanan McGuire

#3. The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

George Eliot

#4. Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

Catherine Taylor

#5. What rioters, out of control, are really protesting about is life itself. Most people do not like it, it's humiliating for almost everyone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.

Radhanath Swami

#7. If we never had the courage to take a leap of faith, we'd be cheating God out of a chance to mount us up with wings like eagles and watch us soar.

Jen Stephens

#8. There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.

Toni Morrison

#9. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Flora Lewis

#10. But language is wine upon his lips

Virginia Woolf

#11. I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Brad Delson

#12. If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)

Albert Camus