Quotes from Ann Hood

The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.

In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was handed books. And through reading them, I grew up to find that very life.

I felt untethered. A man stepped into my life that day and grounded me.

I see you in the library. The way you love the books.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

Sometimes we pray for help in accepting what comes our way. That takes a bit of magic, too -George

No one who reads can ever be bored

She took the first tentative, terrifying, exhilarating steps into her future.

Darling, the psalm tells us that we must walk through the valley. we cannot walk around it, I'm afraid.

She was always kind of sad, even when she smiled.

Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn't sure that was enough anymore.

I don't know what I want or what I feel. I thought I wanted this. Us. But now I'm not so sure.

Oddly, our mall had a small movie theater that showed foreign and independent films. I loved going there, loved how what I saw often confused or embarrassed me, how the movies there made me think in ways that only books did.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." —To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long drinks of calm. The rhythm you find is from down inside, rocking cradle, heartbeat, ocean. Waves on a rockless shore.

Italo Calvino quote, 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.' For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.

Yarn bombing is about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places," Delia answered

He liked the right before part of things, when it was impossible to be disappointed.

I felt joined to all the men and women across cultures down through the ages who'd done something useful with their hands, who'd made essential things from whatever was in front of them.