Books Archive

“‘You could have a normal life. You could love a man who loves you and could see you every day. Really see you, not just you imagining he sees you. You could get married again! I was wrong to even start this. It’s my fault. I lie in bed at night and think, what am [...]

“I felt almost tingly with possibility. People become best friends with their roommates, lay in the dark and talked, got drunk together, lusted after guys, shared clothes. Years later they hoped for their children to go to college together.” – Best Friends by Martha Moody

"And I knew exactly how old Walt's Cinderella felt when she found her prince." - A Promising Man and About Time, Too by Elizabeth Young

“This story, like every story, has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And each of these parts is a story in itself.” – Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

“For the moment all you have to know is that two fundamentally different stories have been enacted here during the lifetime of man. One began to be enacted here some two or three million years ago by the people we’ve agreed to cal Leavers and is still being enacted here some ten or twelve thousand [...]

“They’ve been told an explaining story. They’ve been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything, including the deterioration of the ozone layer, the pollution of the oceans, the destruction of the rain forests, and even human extinction—and it satisfied them. Or perhaps [...]

“We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.” – Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

“Even if you weren’t personally captivated by the story, you were a captive all the same, because the people around you made you a captive. You were like an animal being swept along in the middle of a stampede.” – Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

"I have sometimes been asked whether I consider love higher than art, and I have replied that I cannot separate them, for the artist is the only lover, he alone has the pure vision of beauty and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty." - My Life by Isadora Duncan

"With a measure of self-serving irony, I reassure myself that perhaps I needed to kiss Leo to really let go of him--and dismiss the notion that staying in my marriage is any version of settling, or that I'm with Andy by default. After all, isn't settling about having no opinions at all? About taking something because it's better than nothing? I finally had a real choice. And I chose." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin