Sarah
@quotingbooks.bsky.social
about the account: quotes from books/audiobooks that click with me
about me: alexandria va / working mom / coffee shop obsessed / comedian’s wife
about me: alexandria va / working mom / coffee shop obsessed / comedian’s wife
“[She] had no idea if at 32 she was still young. Being in your thirties was very confusing in that respect.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
#truthinfiction #booksky #quotes
#truthinfiction #booksky #quotes
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“[She] had no idea if at 32 she was still young. Being in your thirties was very confusing in that respect.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
#truthinfiction #booksky #quotes
#truthinfiction #booksky #quotes
“The ache of the memory is gone, but he doesn’t begrudge its visitation. He’s lived long enough to know that the memory hurt because many years ago…he experienced a perfect moment.” Recursion by Blake Crouch
#booksky #bookquotes #scifi
#booksky #bookquotes #scifi
August 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“The ache of the memory is gone, but he doesn’t begrudge its visitation. He’s lived long enough to know that the memory hurt because many years ago…he experienced a perfect moment.” Recursion by Blake Crouch
#booksky #bookquotes #scifi
#booksky #bookquotes #scifi
“Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That’s what people don’t realize. Moving on is not proactive, it’s organic. Be kind to yourself.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
#booksky #quote #bookquote
#booksky #quote #bookquote
August 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That’s what people don’t realize. Moving on is not proactive, it’s organic. Be kind to yourself.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
#booksky #quote #bookquote
#booksky #quote #bookquote
“I don’t even think all the people who go to church every Sunday believe in God. I think they just need company, to feel that they belong to a group…but I don’t think that means that God doesn’t exist…I think maybe that’s what God is.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#booksky #bookquote #quotes
#booksky #bookquote #quotes
August 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“I don’t even think all the people who go to church every Sunday believe in God. I think they just need company, to feel that they belong to a group…but I don’t think that means that God doesn’t exist…I think maybe that’s what God is.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#booksky #bookquote #quotes
#booksky #bookquote #quotes
“That’s why they scare little kids with stories about burning for eternity just for having a backbone.” - The Free People’s Village by @simkern.bsky.social
#bookquotes #booksky #quote
#bookquotes #booksky #quote
August 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“That’s why they scare little kids with stories about burning for eternity just for having a backbone.” - The Free People’s Village by @simkern.bsky.social
#bookquotes #booksky #quote
#bookquotes #booksky #quote
“What evil among men is like: it’s like water being heated up a little at a time. It gets worse and worse, but so slowly it’s hardly noticeable, so everyone can convince themselves that it’s probably normal until we’re all boiling.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#booksky #bookquotes #quotes
#booksky #bookquotes #quotes
August 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“What evil among men is like: it’s like water being heated up a little at a time. It gets worse and worse, but so slowly it’s hardly noticeable, so everyone can convince themselves that it’s probably normal until we’re all boiling.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#booksky #bookquotes #quotes
#booksky #bookquotes #quotes
“It may feel like time is running out…but the universe rarely runs according to your schedule. All you can do is listen to your own heart…and figure out what feels right to you. And sometimes, that means taking your time.” Looking for a Sign by Susie Dumond @susiedoom.bsky.social
#booksky #quotes
#booksky #quotes
August 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“It may feel like time is running out…but the universe rarely runs according to your schedule. All you can do is listen to your own heart…and figure out what feels right to you. And sometimes, that means taking your time.” Looking for a Sign by Susie Dumond @susiedoom.bsky.social
#booksky #quotes
#booksky #quotes
“That’s how mercilessly great the responsibility of being a parent is - that you have to be able to take [your mother] for granted, like food in the freezer, like ballast in a boat.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#bookquotes #booksky #parenthood #motherhood
#bookquotes #booksky #parenthood #motherhood
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“That’s how mercilessly great the responsibility of being a parent is - that you have to be able to take [your mother] for granted, like food in the freezer, like ballast in a boat.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#bookquotes #booksky #parenthood #motherhood
#bookquotes #booksky #parenthood #motherhood
“We do the world no good when we throw up our hands and surrender to the moral frameworks of algorithms. AIs are not aliens from another world. They are things of our all too human creation…These new beings will only be as moral as we design them to be.” Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“We do the world no good when we throw up our hands and surrender to the moral frameworks of algorithms. AIs are not aliens from another world. They are things of our all too human creation…These new beings will only be as moral as we design them to be.” Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social
“All children are born with wings…it’s just that the world is full of people who try to tear them off…Only a few children escape. But those children - they rise up to the skies!.. You feel strange because you still have your wings rubbing beneath your skin.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #booksky
July 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“All children are born with wings…it’s just that the world is full of people who try to tear them off…Only a few children escape. But those children - they rise up to the skies!.. You feel strange because you still have your wings rubbing beneath your skin.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman #booksky
“Some of us are born in the wrong place. The whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island. We ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet. That’s all childhood friends are - people stuck on the same island.” My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#booksky #quotes
#booksky #quotes
July 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Sarah
This evening at the grocery store, I saw a lady sitting there in her car reading her kindle: sitting and enjoying a quiet moment before she had to head back home and the myriad things that keep one from reading. Gotta carve out those moments. I feel you, sister. 🤓📚🧘♀️ #BookSky #Reading
July 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“And I was struck again with the awareness that I was alive in strange times. There was a palpable sense of things in decline.” - Upgrade by Blake Crouch
#booksky #bookquotes #sciencefiction
#booksky #bookquotes #sciencefiction
July 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“And I was struck again with the awareness that I was alive in strange times. There was a palpable sense of things in decline.” - Upgrade by Blake Crouch
#booksky #bookquotes #sciencefiction
#booksky #bookquotes #sciencefiction
“The world is such a peculiar place. I’ve learned that people you thought you’d never see again can find their way back to you. You’ve been tied to them all along and didn’t know it.” The Butcher’s Daughter by @daviddemchuk.com and @corinneleighclark.bsky.social
#booksky #bookquote
#booksky #bookquote
July 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“The world is such a peculiar place. I’ve learned that people you thought you’d never see again can find their way back to you. You’ve been tied to them all along and didn’t know it.” The Butcher’s Daughter by @daviddemchuk.com and @corinneleighclark.bsky.social
#booksky #bookquote
#booksky #bookquote
“You know what I love about you? …It’s like you hold me steady without holding me still.” - The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
#booksky #romance #bookquotes
#booksky #romance #bookquotes
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“You know what I love about you? …It’s like you hold me steady without holding me still.” - The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
#booksky #romance #bookquotes
#booksky #romance #bookquotes
“It’s the parasitic logic of profit, which has wormed its way so deeply into the collective mind, that to defy lucre is to mark oneself as a radical or a criminal or a lunatic.” - the Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
I like to call this book “2084” #IYKYK
#bookquotes #profitanddata #booksky #quotes
I like to call this book “2084” #IYKYK
#bookquotes #profitanddata #booksky #quotes
July 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“It’s the parasitic logic of profit, which has wormed its way so deeply into the collective mind, that to defy lucre is to mark oneself as a radical or a criminal or a lunatic.” - the Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
I like to call this book “2084” #IYKYK
#bookquotes #profitanddata #booksky #quotes
I like to call this book “2084” #IYKYK
#bookquotes #profitanddata #booksky #quotes
“We are undone by the specificity of our dreams. Reality can never live up to the shining edifices we forge inside our fantasies. Life, in all its confusing complexity, is destined to be a disappointment in comparison…”
June 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“We are undone by the specificity of our dreams. Reality can never live up to the shining edifices we forge inside our fantasies. Life, in all its confusing complexity, is destined to be a disappointment in comparison…”
“How can you be nostalgic about a facade?” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
June 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“How can you be nostalgic about a facade?” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
Reposted by Sarah
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire
#writingprompt #quotes #fictionmonday
#writingprompt #quotes #fictionmonday
Fiction Monday – 257
Welcome to the two hundred and fifty-seventh edition of Fiction Monday. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire Stories From Last Week Slow Down by SarahMa, I Wish You Had Lived For Yourself by BalakaNot In A Hurry by Vinitha Fiction Monday Fiction Monday 257 – RADAR Word Prompt – RADAR The idea is simple―to write.
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June 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire
#writingprompt #quotes #fictionmonday
#writingprompt #quotes #fictionmonday
“Never underestimate the power of love to lead you down the pathway of willful blindness. Faith in the people you adore doesn’t disappear slowly... Instead, it collapses all at once, like the final snowfall that triggers an avalanche...” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
#booksky #quotes
#booksky #quotes
June 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“You need lots of people around you if you’re ever going to find your true self. Listening to one voice, and one voice only, doesn’t make you a human being. It makes you a parrot.” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
#booksky #bookquotes
@janellebrown.bsky.social
#booksky #bookquotes
@janellebrown.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“You need lots of people around you if you’re ever going to find your true self. Listening to one voice, and one voice only, doesn’t make you a human being. It makes you a parrot.” What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
#booksky #bookquotes
@janellebrown.bsky.social
#booksky #bookquotes
@janellebrown.bsky.social
77% through and I’ve already started recommending it
Yes, I devoured Janelle Brown's new novel. You will, too. @randomhouse.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
77% through and I’ve already started recommending it
Reposted by Sarah
“Shall I teach you about knowledge? What you know, you know, and what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”
— Confucius, Analects
#philosophy #philsky
— Confucius, Analects
#philosophy #philsky
June 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Shall I teach you about knowledge? What you know, you know, and what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”
— Confucius, Analects
#philosophy #philsky
— Confucius, Analects
#philosophy #philsky
“How many sun-drenched ice cream cone Saturdays does one little kid actually get before his spirit is crushed by bullies and bad bosses…How many sock-footed Christmas mornings, tiptoeing downstairs to a pile of gifts beneath the tree?” -All the Other Mothers Hate Me,Sarah Harman #booksky #bookquotes
June 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“How many sun-drenched ice cream cone Saturdays does one little kid actually get before his spirit is crushed by bullies and bad bosses…How many sock-footed Christmas mornings, tiptoeing downstairs to a pile of gifts beneath the tree?” -All the Other Mothers Hate Me,Sarah Harman #booksky #bookquotes