Quotes Worth Remembering

Do you ever feel the need to stop reading, to take a moment for a pause, to think about the line or passage that you just read? Are you someone who tries to remember these little moments and to savour the joy of those words? These little gems we find in our favourite books written by our favourite authors make great reads ever so much more special.

If you’ve discovered special lines and passages that took your breath away, or made you laugh out loud or ugly cry at inopportune moments, you have found your people, my friend. You’ll find some of our favourite quotes sprinkled here and around our little club. Share some of your favourites, we would absolutely love to read them and find out what we might have missed out on.

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Shared By Bella Gray

Life will break you. Nobody can protect from that, and living alone can’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.
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Shared By Book Club Friend

“‘Should I carry him?’ asked Gamache, feeling badly because he hadn’t remembered that the biting snow could burn a dog’s paw. Now he remembered last winter struggling to carry old Sonny the 3 blocks home when his feet couldn’t take the cold any more. It had broken both their hearts. And he remembered hugging Sonny to him a few months later when the vet came to put him to sleep. And he remembered saying soothing things into the stinky old ears & looking into the weepy brown eyes as they closed, with one final thump of the ragged, beloved, tail. And as he felt the final beat of Sonny’s heart, Gamache had had the impression it wasn’t that his old heart had stopped but that Sonny had finally given it all away.”
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The Nature of the Beast

“…grief took a terrible toll. It was paid at every birthday, every holiday, each Christmas. It was paid when glimpsing the familiar handwriting, or a hat, or a balled-up sock. Or hearing a creak that could have been, should have been, a footstep. Grief took its toll each morning, each evening, every noon hour as those who were left behind struggled forward.”

Louise Penny, The Nature of the Beast
Helen Peterson
“This moved me and is a passage I find myself coming back to time and time again. Such wisdom and insight in each book. This is why I read and re-read Louise’s books.”
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The Man Who Died Twice

“You are simply a little lost, Donna. And if one is never lost in life, then clearly one has never traveled anywhere interesting.”

Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice
Taylor S.
“I am a HUGE fan. Just love everything about The Thursday Murder Club series. These are my two favorite quotes from this book.”

“Revenge is not a straight line, it’s a circle. It’s a grenade that goes off while you’re still in the room, and you can’t help but be caught in the blast.”

Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice
Taylor S.
“I am a HUGE fan. Just love everything about The Thursday Murder Club series. These are my two favorite quotes from this book.”
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Troubled Blood

“We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.”

Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood
Denise Patton
“How true this is.”
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