“[She] had no idea if at 32 she was still young. Being in your thirties was very confusing in that respect.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell #truthinfiction #booksky #quotes

“The ache of the memory is gone, but he doesn’t begrudge its visitation. He’s lived long enough to know that the memory hurt because many years ago…he experienced a perfect moment.” Recursion by Blake Crouch #booksky #bookquotes #scifi

“Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That’s what people don’t realize. Moving on is not proactive, it’s organic. Be kind to yourself.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell #booksky #quote #bookquote

“We’re intelligent enough to be aware of the illusion [of time] even as we live by it, and so in moments like this…it tortures us because I’m locked in my moment and you’re locked in yours.” Recursion by Blake Crouch #booksky #quote #scifi

“I don’t even think all the people who go to church every Sunday believe in God. I think they just need company, to feel that they belong to a group…but I don’t think that means that God doesn’t exist…I think maybe that’s what God is.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #booksky #bookquote #quotes

“That’s why they scare little kids with stories about burning for eternity just for having a backbone.” - The Free People’s Village by @simkern.bsky.social #bookquotes #booksky #quote

“What evil among men is like: it’s like water being heated up a little at a time. It gets worse and worse, but so slowly it’s hardly noticeable, so everyone can convince themselves that it’s probably normal until we’re all boiling.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #booksky #bookquotes #quotes

“It may feel like time is running out…but the universe rarely runs according to your schedule. All you can do is listen to your own heart…and figure out what feels right to you. And sometimes, that means taking your time.” Looking for a Sign by Susie Dumond @susiedoom.bsky.social #booksky #quotes

“That’s how mercilessly great the responsibility of being a parent is - that you have to be able to take [your mother] for granted, like food in the freezer, like ballast in a boat.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #bookquotes #booksky #parenthood #motherhood

“We do the world no good when we throw up our hands and surrender to the moral frameworks of algorithms. AIs are not aliens from another world. They are things of our all too human creation…These new beings will only be as moral as we design them to be.” Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social

“All children are born with wings…it’s just that the world is full of people who try to tear them off…Only a few children escape. But those children - they rise up to the skies!.. You feel strange because you still have your wings rubbing beneath your skin.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #booksky

“Some of us are born in the wrong place. The whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island. We ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet. That’s all childhood friends are - people stuck on the same island.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #booksky #quotes

This evening at the grocery store, I saw a lady sitting there in her car reading her kindle: sitting and enjoying a quiet moment before she had to head back home and the myriad things that keep one from reading. Gotta carve out those moments. I feel you, sister. 🤓📚🧘‍♀️ #BookSky #Reading

“And I was struck again with the awareness that I was alive in strange times. There was a palpable sense of things in decline.” - Upgrade by Blake Crouch #booksky #bookquotes #sciencefiction

“The world is such a peculiar place. I’ve learned that people you thought you’d never see again can find their way back to you. You’ve been tied to them all along and didn’t know it.” The Butcher’s Daughter by @daviddemchuk.com and @corinneleighclark.bsky.social #booksky #bookquote

“You know what I love about you? …It’s like you hold me steady without holding me still.” - The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan #booksky #romance #bookquotes

“It’s the parasitic logic of profit, which has wormed its way so deeply into the collective mind, that to defy lucre is to mark oneself as a radical or a criminal or a lunatic.” - the Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami I like to call this book “2084” #IYKYK #bookquotes #profitanddata #booksky #quotes

“We are undone by the specificity of our dreams. Reality can never live up to the shining edifices we forge inside our fantasies. Life, in all its confusing complexity, is destined to be a disappointment in comparison…”

“How can you be nostalgic about a facade?” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire #writingprompt #quotes #fictionmonday

“Never underestimate the power of love to lead you down the pathway of willful blindness. Faith in the people you adore doesn’t disappear slowly... Instead, it collapses all at once, like the final snowfall that triggers an avalanche...” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown #booksky #quotes

“You need lots of people around you if you’re ever going to find your true self. Listening to one voice, and one voice only, doesn’t make you a human being. It makes you a parrot.” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown #booksky #bookquotes @janellebrown.bsky.social

77% through and I’ve already started recommending it

“Shall I teach you about knowledge? What you know, you know, and what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.” — Confucius, Analects #philosophy #philsky

“How many sun-drenched ice cream cone Saturdays does one little kid actually get before his spirit is crushed by bullies and bad bosses…How many sock-footed Christmas mornings, tiptoeing downstairs to a pile of gifts beneath the tree?” -All the Other Mothers Hate Me,Sarah Harman #booksky #bookquotes

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” — Emily Dickinson #flowers #photography #quotes #poet #pansies #nature #beauty

“Show me a woman who, beneath all the eye lash extensions and hair dye and loose beach waves, isn’t f*ing boiling with rage at the sheer injustice of it all, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t paying close enough attention.” -All the Other Mothers Hate Me,Sarah Harman #bookquotes #booksky #feminism

“Last time I went to a club, they were playing Rihanna, and there was bottle service and a VIP section. I feel as ancient as the sea. When did body glitter become a thing again?” -All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman #booksky #bookquotes #millennial

☀️📚💕🫶🏻 Thanks @bibliophile on insta for the daily inspiration ✨ #booksky #writersky #readersky #bookreview #authorsky #dailyquotes

“I was enraged by the clouds, whose fluffiness was an affront to my dark mood.” -Sky Daddy by Kate Folk @katefolk.bsky.social #booksky #bookquotes

(4487) #Confucius “If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?” #Quotes #aphorisms #Lifelong #Learning #Life #Lessons

“He has given himself the privilege of assuming that his chances are limitless.” - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara #booksky #quotes

“I wish there was a real monster…Monsters are comforting compared to humans.” Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su #booksky #bookquotes

“When [nice things happen to good people]…just say “thank you,” and move on, and maybe consider that the person who’s doing the nice thing…really isn’t in the mood to hear all the reasons that the person…doesn’t think he deserves it or isn’t worthy of it.” -A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara #booksky

“I’m so burnt out on cooking. Can you believe we have to eat dinner every night?” - How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris

“And exile? Wherever I go, I will be fine, because I was already fine here - not on the count of the place, but as a result of my principles, and I am going to take them with me.” A.A. Long translated Epictetus in How to be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

“It’s a bad habit, my sudden departures…My leavings were a test: would anyone care if I disappeared?” Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su

“Is it possible to be submissive if you’ve achieved [freedom]? It is not... Whenever you see someone groveling to another person, or flattering him insincerely, you can confidently say that this man… is not free.” Epictetus translated by AA Long in How to be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

“All passion is childish. It’s banal and naive. It’s nothing we learn; it’s instinctive, and so it overwhelms us, overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.” Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backman

“And there it is! That’s the math. I want to be elsewhere, so I go…It’s that simple these days.” -Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camoghne Felix

“Celebrate daily life. It’s so much more important than any holiday.” - Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger

“There are no islands. If you go far enough down, everything is connected…joined to the same earth…The walls we have between us are imaginary.” The Life Impossible by Matt Haig @matthaig.bsky.social

“I wondered why every successful business person on the planet continued to work and visit offices and stare at computers when they could just quit and eat watermelon in the sun forever.” - The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

“Someday I’d like to be given credit for all the times I have not said something I could have said.” -Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

“The populist, the seducer of the masses…gives them what they think they want, and as a result they rally to his side…[This] pattern…is one that has been re-enacted more than once in the 20th century…the tyrant beings as a populist.” -David Roochnik on Plato’s Republic (lecture published in 2015)

“Everyone prays…even if they don’t use that verb - even if they’re not completely sure who or what they’re imploring.” - Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian

“It is good to have friends when the world has gone mad.” - Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig (2023)

“…a marriage turned out to be the accrual of ordinary, almost inconsequential, acts of daily devotion.” - Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

“Millennials…were raised in preparation for a world that no longer exists.” Once In A Millennial by Kate Kennedy