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"Houses are funny like that, aren't they? Made new by new owners. All the history wiped away. Sometimes I wonder how much the buildings remember though. In the bricks, you know what I mean? Something must soak in. All those lives."

"Books were so much more than paper and words; they held magic within them and every hand they passed through was touched by that magic, forever changed, even if they did not know it."

"But life cannot be paused. It is a relentless march onward; only its path may be changed."

"...kindness is the only legacy anyone can leave."

"A book is a many-layered thing and we see but a fraction of its depth in the reading of it."

"...for there is nothing like the smell of books to awaken the soul."

"Or do you not believe that the opinion of a woman is of value? For I tell you, I would rather have a woman's thoughts on character than those of any man, because a woman's thoughts are truer, and less likely to be turned by outward charm."

"The aloneness ate a hole through him. Sometimes he worried that the loneliness had taken everything, that there was nothing left of him at all on the inside."

"Maybe feeling things is something people can learn to forget."

"People would always expect her to be exactly as they thought she was and would never let her be anything more. It was like trying to walk forward and finding that your head had been yoked in place."

"All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken."

"Home isn't always where the heart is. Sometimes, home is where the hurt lives."

"Sometimes what we don't know can teach us more than what we do."

"Who I used to be is always doing battle with who I want to be."

"He began to think that light was the only thing that gave life meaning, and he despaired that there was so little of it to be had."

I started this a few months ago...then got distracted by 500 other books! 🤦‍♀️ I restarted the audiobook today. I love the way she describes nature; the forest, trees, and rivers are painted hauntingly eerie and wild.

"She'd spent months tangled in everyone else's desires, so afraid of breaking another thing in their lives that she'd never listened to her own voice."

"The world is dark, and light is precious."

"Of how sometimes, in the deepest dark, you lose yourself entirely. Or you find a new way forward - reinventing who you are. Who you can still become."

"Great tragedies don't ask for great heroes. They ask for ordinary people willing to do the next right thing. ...Maybe that's all any of us can do now."

"There is beauty in the persistence of her heartbeat, the tenacity of her breath, the courage of her bones."

"Preparing the white folks feels like herding cats."
😂😂😂 Yes, I would imagine so!!

"See, in this life, we're all just floating down the river. You might have somewhere you want to be, but like it or not, that river's taking you where it wants to go. Fighting the current don't hurt the river, it just wears you out."

"The world he once believed in - of reason, of medical ethics, of fundamental human dignity - is gone, replaced by something monstrous. And they have all let it happen, one small compromise at a time."

"But now he understands that words are another kind of tool, another way to shape the world."