“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
The Open Book Club
— 43 members
— last activity Mar 28, 2014 11:12PM
Come join my book club! Everyone!! If you love to READ; come and join/like my facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/brookeopenbookclub
Traveling Book #2
— 32 members
— last activity Sep 24, 2019 10:29AM
For those who did not participate in the first traveling book basically I will be selecting a book soon to travel around the United States along with ...more
Traveling Book #1 2012
— 24 members
— last activity Nov 16, 2015 08:29AM
The idea is to read a book and send it to other people around the world leaving comments and your name/location inside the book. For leaving comments ...more
September 2012: Book for the Month
— 41 members
— last activity Oct 26, 2012 04:00PM
For this month we will be reading, "The Light Between Oceans," by: M.L. Stedman. While reading through the book think of questions you want to ask p ...more
October 2012: book of the month
— 21 members
— last activity Dec 28, 2012 09:25AM
We will be reading and discussing the book, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society". ...more
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