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"People could say things about Owen. They could, but they don't. We don't. Words are strong. The strongest. Worse than bruises on gravel."

I am really appreciating this book. I see the blossoming relationships coming, ebbing and flowing, etc.

"When it comes to doing golf for charity, it really seems that Canada's parliamentarians are... above par." Oh, Charlie, please,,,,,,

"It's an offence to call things in Ottawa 'Parliament Hill' if they're not actually on Parliament Hill ...

"While the 1970s were a wild decade, don't worry -- the origin story of this [law] isn't some shag-carpeted-lit-by-lava-lamp-disco-playing establishment of ill-repute setting up shop in Ottawa and calling itself the 'Parliament Hill Boudoir.' That said, it is a someone quirky one."

"A bookstore is a bookstore ... Everyone is welcome in bookstores and all types rub shoulders in them, the wealthy and the poor, the highly educated and the self-taught, the old and the young, the adventurous and the conventional, and others still. You might even bump into the Queen."

"An excellent way to climb back into yourself is to read a book... an entirely private experience. When you are reading, your guard needn't be up. You can be entirely yourself."

"My argument is that literature—as opposed to factual non-fiction—is an essential element to a deeply thinking, fully feeling mind in our complex twenty-first-century world. A mind not informed by the thoughtful product that is the novel, the play, the poem, will be capable perhaps of administering the affairs of a people, maintaining the status quo, but not of fully leading that people."

erm

meh

"Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced.
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all."

"The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without."

"What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn."

!!!! He gets me every time! I will finish this book before I get off this train!

About halfway through-- this book might make me cry in this Starbucks!