“Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.”
― The Monsters of Templeton
― The Monsters of Templeton
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? Someone else who loved books.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“When I was small and easily wounded, books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book, they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight; the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.”
― The Monsters of Templeton
― The Monsters of Templeton
Lynette’s 2025 Year in Books
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