“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard”
― Betsy and Joe
― Betsy and Joe
“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
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“Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.”
― Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
― Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
“People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?”
― Betsy and Joe
― Betsy and Joe
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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