Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes from the year

I wasn't going to do this post, but then changed my mind. Just to note, I am not a quote collector. I made my list by listing some of my favorite reads from this year and then looking at the quotes on Goodreads for each book. Here are ten quotes I like from my favorite …

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Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." Lemony Snicket (February 28, 1970: A most unfortunate day. Novelist Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, was once born in the benighted city of San Francisco and is now a dismal 43 years old.)

The Nature of Things: Book 1 Matter and Void

Lucretious While this text is easy to read, but it very long and dry. ...alone [Venus] steer the nature of things upon its course..." pg. 3 I found this quote interesting because it references the goddess Venus before continuing onto a discussion concerning sciences. As a person who does not have a 'god,' I see …

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle Book 1 ...every action and pursuit is considered to aim at some good." -pg. 3I feel this is true because it seems odd that someone would truly want to do evil. You read about evil characters and people in history, but most often those characters feel they are doing good even if they are …

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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 left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly …