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“He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Don’t stand there holding the ball if a freight train’s headed for you. Can’t play in the second quarter if you’re dead.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Sofonisba, so that you can protect yourself and your reputation. First, never contradict your betters. Avoid possessing any unflattering information about them unless you can utilize it. And don’t explain yourself to your inferiors. When your image is secure, your freedom will be too.” In addition to the hospitality and the duchess’ advice on court behavior, Sofonisba devoured the court’s spectacular art collection. With Master Clovio she toured the palace collection, which contained works by the best artists of the era. She stopped in front of a portrait of”
― Donna DiGiuseppe, Lady in Ermine — The Story of A Woman Who Painted the Renaissance: A Biographical Novel of Sofonisba Anguissola

“If you want to express your individual dignity, advocate for it, even if you are that lone voice.”
― Donna DiGiuseppe, Lady in Ermine — The Story of A Woman Who Painted the Renaissance: A Biographical Novel of Sofonisba Anguissola

“methemoglobinemia,” he said again. That there was finally a name to my peculiarity astonished me; that it could be as big as that word scared”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“to the museum was driving home the point that it might be easier to contemplate something outside ourselves in order to understand something inside ourselves. Dawn was thinking the same thing.”
― Becky Aikman, Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

“Her voice was often heavy with dismissed hope.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“What if this joy you felt, this love, was so great that you wanted to share it with everyone, but they all rushed right by you, looking in the other direction?” All these years later, it’s still the best description of how I feel about books. I would stand in an airport to tell people about how much I love books, reading them, writing them, making sure other people felt comfortable reading and writing them.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

“involtini”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“Donatello”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“One night of admiration was no consolation for a lifetime of being trapped in this room. “We are about to go see the unveiling of that young man’s new David. It’s exciting. The whole city is out in the streets.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Religion is based on faith.” “But you realize,” she said carefully, as if not to embarrass him further, “that faith isn’t based on religion.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“I did not take you for the kind of woman who would punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River