Book Clubs Quotes

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
― Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

“If you can be heard then you exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with that insatiable passion like you do when you thought you could leave but the sight of my throbbing rock hard love muscle made you too weak in the knees. Your mind is melting fast, your soul is whispering trust, your eyes are begging please and your anger has turned to lust. Let me undress your body, caress your skin and wetly massage your mind back into making love to me again. I’d rather say I’m sorry and keep my best friend than have this come to an end. Be encouraged but more importantly…be lethal with your make up love.”
― Kerry E. Wagner

“Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

“A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

“Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

“What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?”
― Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins

“A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

“Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam”
― Gitty Daneshvari, Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever

“None of us had any experience with literary societies, so we made our own rules: we took turns speaking about the books we'd read. At the start, we tried to be calm and objective, but that soon fell away, and the purpose of the speaker was to goad the listeners into wanting to read the book themselves. Once two members had read the same book, they could argue, which was our great delight. We read books, talked books, argued over books, and became dearer and dearer to one another.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer

“Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work--harder than one might think.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.”
― Joe Queenan

“What is the nature of life?
Life is lines of dominoes falling.
One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess

“The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

“Nobody quits the book club. Once you’re in the club, you’re in it forever.”
― R.L. Naquin, Unamused Muse

“I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha " he said. "The book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel.”
― J. Alexander Greenwood, Pilate's Cross

“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.”
― Carol Anshaw

“I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead”
― Amy Hatvany, It Happens All the Time

“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, It Happens All the Time

“I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.”
― Amy Hatvany, It Happens All the Time

“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“It's commonplace today to make fun of women-centric book clubs, where there's more wine drinking than book discussion, but for hundreds of years, the only place women could gather, drink, relax and socialize was in a neighbor's kitchen, surrounded by other wives and mothers. There is a long-standing tradition of driving women to some sort of behavior, then mocking them for it. (Sort of like making beauty a women's most powerful and important currency, then laughing about how long it takes her to get ready.)”
― Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

“She was a fascinating character, to say the least. A pioneer and instigator of many weird and wooly projects and who liked to “instigate” you right along with her. Every village has one, and Doris was ours. A lively individual who was always throwing herself into some harebrained scheme or other, taking no prisoners as she pulled you into her wild world of wackiness. Doris’s “urgent” could mean anything from the need to raise money for lame goats to singing at the top of a living Christmas tree.”
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

“Happiness is having your first novel chosen by Kirkus Review for inclusion in the Best Books of 2019!”
― Nora Eklund, The Secret Strand