The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls Quotes

“Boredom is why God invented books.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth?”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“...And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let me in. I still loved opening a book and feeling like I was physically entering the page, the ordinary world fizzing and blurring around the edges until it disappeared.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“Are you going to redye it?"

"No. My mother hates it, so I'm going to keep it," I said.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“The intriguing thing about playing Scrabble is that as soon as the board is set up in front of me, I don't know any words. Other than cat and bat and rat, everything disappears from the language drawer in my brain. My mother, on the other hand, who normally speaks English like a regular person, spells things like qiviut ("wool of the muskox") and hake.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“Unknown meaning, I thought. That was me.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life."

"Boredom is good!" Dr. Rasman looked pleased. "Boredom is why God invented books. Are you still in your book club?”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“Do you want to stand here talking about the car, or are you going to get in it?" CeeCee asked. I was the person with horrible red hair and a mound of pink crust surrounding a diamond in her ear. I was at risk, and I had just made out with a girl in a bathroom. I got into the car.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“We can't stick together if we're going to different places," CeeCee said.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls