Flowers of Quiet Happiness

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book th...

"We revisit old feelings for the same reason we re-read books -- comfort in words familiar even though we know the endings...

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"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were le...

"The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy, knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every t...

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every...

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it...

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life...if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it a...

Just wanted to share some book quotes I've highlighted in my Kindle with you. Whether first lines, last lines, or ones in the middle...

  Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in a vast flock of variegated feather and have a charm whi...

quote from The Bee Tree I was over at my cousin's house the other day, reading a library book to his children. I found this quote a...

This is just a quick stop in. I have at least two reviews I need to write and for some reason they haven't written themselves. Go figure...

Isn't this one of the rules for writing a story, that the first line needs to hook the reader in? Or something like that anyway. I do...

" Fairy tales , then, are not responsible for producing in children fear , or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the...