The Forgotten Book Club Quotes

“It’s Didion’s attempt to make sense of what happened when her husband died”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“but how we feel isn’t always rational”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“The whole world was a shadow”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“How much does where we are in life when we read a book affect our interpretation of it?”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“When I read something that I recognize”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Criticism penetrates far deeper than praise and sticks more firmly too.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Frank embraced life. He took it by the throat and squeezed all the joy he could from it. Grace was more of an observer. Instead of living every moment to the full”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“You can’t live in the past”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Books are escapism too. Frank”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“We’ve all found reading helps us process the lives we’ve lived.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“We’re all more than one thing”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Frank described reading as experiencing another world”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Grace had always kept herself to herself”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“The doctor said what’s normal for me might not be normal for everyone”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“She’d never been one for small talk”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“readers get used to seeing the world through other people’s eyes and that makes them more empathetic, more accepting and less judgemental,”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Being a part of two cultures definitely has its benefits, but it can mean you don’t always feel you fully belong to either.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“the women are the ones who have to be the Labradors and St Bernards because we are the support system for the family. We learn from an early age that mothers look after everyone, and men learn that women look after them. We don’t have the freedom to bounce around like spaniels because someone has to carry the heavy barrel of brandy around their bloody neck to make sure everyone else survives. We can be as feminist as we like but the patriarchy has worked its way into our brains before we take our first steps.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“It’s The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“That’s why I love book club,’ said Annie. ‘Even though there’s only a few of us left, it still makes me feel less alone. Novels do that for me too. When I read something that I recognize, even if it’s not the full story, it could be a line, you know, or a phrase that touches something inside me and it makes me feel seen and understood. That takes some of the loneliness away, you know?”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“Quirky is good. At least you’re not boring.’ She hadn’t been included in the list, and the exclusion hurt, even though she wasn’t sure she wanted to be quirky. ‘At least you and Paz pass as normal.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“since she had said something was ‘so’ someone? Too long. Being an introvert was never a problem when Frank was alive. When”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“How much does where we are in life when we read a book affect our interpretation of it? Teenage Grace saw Eustacia as inspirational and was willing to overlook her flaws, or at least forgive them. She suspected that if she reread the novel now, she”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club

“We’re all more than one thing, aren’t we? Just because we are living a certain life now, doesn’t erase all the things that have happened to us before.”
― Kate Storey, The Forgotten Book Club