The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

298

How many feelings can one heart hold?… Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.

The Axe To Break The Ice

A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. What we need are book that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more that we love ourselves, that makes us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ~ Franz Kafka

The Test of Literature

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ~ Elizabeth Drew

Write Your Own…

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own. ~ Albert Einstein

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein

2260

I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can’t believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

277

if you dread tomorrow, it’s because you don’t know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it’s a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today…

The Martian by Andy Weir

726

Mark Watney is funny and resourceful. Good thing, since he’s stranded on Mars. The main takeaway from The Martian by Andy Weir is that with extreme determination, anything is possible.

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

412

This is a classic Southern Coming of Age story that leaves book lovers feeling like they have already read it a hundred times. Yet they want to continue to read it again and again