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“I used to race through books one after another, but in Book Club Harriet taught us that when you slow down, you notice more, and when you notice more, you feel more. Reading one book makes it part of all the books you've ever read, Harriet said, so she was forever dragging other books into our discussions.

QUESTION: If Gatsby had a brother like Ethan Frome, would he have made the same mistakes?

QUESTION: If Frank and Zooey could speak from the Spoon River graveyard, which one would tell the story, which the "meanwhile"?”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“Maybe tears hide away in the body until such time as they can sprout safely. Freely. In the clear.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“These words do not fly off my tongue. These words step out one by one, wearing shoes.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“The problem with retrospect is it never shows up beforehand.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book