Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Suggestions for Each Week

If you're reading in order, this week is: 12/2 - 12/8

To discuss the book, don't forget to add it in the A-Z folders or join the existing discussion if your book is already listed.

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week?
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

What are you reading this week?
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline:

What is the great opening line?
"I believe in ghosts. They're the ones who haunt us, the ones who have left us behind. Many times in my life I have felt them around me, observing, witnessing, when no one in the living world knew or cared what happened."

What do you like about it?
Everything! It just seems so powerful: being left behind, ghosts being there when no one else cares, the feeling that even if you're alone in the world someone else cares!

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
I could spill a billion Harry Potter quotes, but I'll spare you the HP nerd in me ;)

Could not go past this one.

Call me Ishmael.

Julia, I'm also reading Moby Dick for this week. Or actually, I'm going to listen to the audiobook.

What are you reading this week?
This was another category that I really struggled to find something for. Eventually, I settled on Rebecca, a book that my mom has kept telling me to try.

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

I don't even know what it is about this line, because on its own, it really doesn't seem particularly special. For me, it just seems to set the tone for the book, although that may be because I've already heard so much about how haunting it is.

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" - Pride and Prejudice

- "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" - Anna Karenina

- "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" - Jane Eyre. Like the quote from Rebecca, it just seemed to set the tone for the book perfectly

And a lot of quotes from Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. The books are hilarious, and they actually have some real pieces of wisdom in them. And another great opening line -- "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle."

And of course, there are many quotes that I love from Harry Potter. Some because they are so meaningful, some because they are just hilarious ("We could all have been killed -- or worse, expelled!"). I couldn't even begin to list them all.

Sophie wrote: "Julia, I'm also reading Moby Dick for this week. Or actually, I'm going to listen to the audiobook."

Be careful if you're listening to this while you're driving ... the chapters on whale anatomy might actually put you to sleep. I loved this book, but man those sections were dry.

Jody wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Be careful if you're listening to this while you're driving ... the chapters on whale anatomy might actually put you to sleep. I loved this book, but man those sections were dry. "

While listening to A Feast for Crows, I discovered that I can perfectly skim through boring passages with 1.5 speed, so I'm already planning to do that when he describes the whale. The advantage of listening instead of reading is that I can day-dream during those moments, but I could never skip pages of a book.

What are you reading this week?
I am reading Lair of Dreams

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel beam, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting.

I love the imagery. I was immediately taken by just the first sentence. The shortness and simplicity of it. I decided to include the second sentence for more context.

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
Oh, too many. The ones that strike the largest chord with me are from Le Petit Prince

"S'il vous plait, dessine-moi un mouton."

"On ne voit bien qu'avec la coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

"Mais, si tu m'apprivoises, nous aurons besoin l'un de l'autre. Tu seras pour moi unique au monde. Je serai pour toi unique au monde."

What are you reading this week?
Unspoken by Gerry Stembridge

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Ann Strong did not vote in the presidential election, because on that June evening, her waters broke".
This is the first book in a series about the recent social and political history of my hometown, and Ireland in general. Ann's child is one of five born in the Limerick Maternity that night, and the series follows these children and their families, as well as some of Ireland's more famous figures.

Are there any other quotes that you love?
"When I first noticed that people thought there was something different about me, I didn't know what that was because... well, I was just me. What made it more confusing was some people liked me and some people hated me for the same reason".

"Francis was pretty glum and he could tell that Ian Barry was too. It felt worse than the end of hols. They had just finished reading their last Five Find-outers story, The Mystery of Banshee Towers. There were no more. Since becoming chums, Francis and Ian had read one very week."

"For however long it lasted, Baz Molloy forgot he was physically present in the middle of this mayhem on a street in Derry. There was only the reality of the shot. He rolled camera and framed two uniformed RUC men."

What are you reading this week?
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, which tells the interweaving story of the Lee family, the events leading up to and the consequences of, the death of their teenage daughter. The book discusses family relations, racism, discrimination, and women's roles before Second Wave feminism all while also revealing a mystery that starts with the first line of the book.
What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." Totally sucked me in and I could not put this book down. At first it seems like the book will unravel the mystery of Lydia, a teenage girl growing up in the 1970s in the midwest, and her disappearance and death. However, the book turns out to be so much more, and Ng herself states that the story sort of unfolded as she wrote it, and that the ending was really the center of the story.
Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us. So many in this book! As someone who is also half-Asian and half-white, like the children in this book, Lydia's thought process of being the 'different' one in their small town was a passage I really identified with, and it's so beautifully written:

"Sometimes you didn't think about it at all. And then sometimes you noticed the girl across the aisle watching, the pharmacist watching, the checkout boy watching, and you saw yourself reflected in their stares: incongruous. Catching the eye like a hook. Every time you saw yourself from the outside, you saw the way other people saw you, you remembered all over again." (p. 193)

I read I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest. The first sentence is, "Libby Deaton and May Harper invented Princess X in 5th grade when Libby's leg was in a cast, and May had a doctor's note saying she couldn't run around the track anymore because her asthma would totally kill her." This sentence immediately establishes the main characters (including Princess X) but I also love the humor in it. I loved the entire book but didn't write down or highlight any other particular quotes.

What are you reading this week?
Blood Rites
What is the great opening line?
The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.
I love this line just from how great it is. I've read the entire series so far purely to reach this moment.
Are there any other book quotes that you love?
The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. The Gunslinger

- What are you reading this week? Wonder
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
I know I'm not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an XBox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.
It sets the whole tone of the book.
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us. Sure, this one:
“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. ...
"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week?
I read The Virgin Suicides

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

I felt it was very powerful and grabbed my attention right away.

Rachel wrote: "What are you reading this week?
This was another category that I really struggled to find something for. Eventually, I settled on Rebecca, a book that my mom has kept telling me to ..."

I'm joining you on this! Because my book group read it this month, I doubled up and read it for person's name in title but then my book group picked a book that works better that week but when we reviewed ideas for this week kept going "too bad Rebecca can't be used in this week." So I'm switching!

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." It holds so much wishfulness, memory, and you wonder why she left Manderley and was dreaming about it. Also, being a dream also speaks to the psychological nature of the whole book.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
So very many! Especially first line.

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.'- Love in the Time of Cholera

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show". —Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"It was the day my grandmother exploded." —Iain M. Banks, The Crow Road. This so made you think what? And I must admit. I dined out on this story for awhile! "Did you know pacemakers explode if they're left in a body when it is cremated?"

Stephanie wrote: :What is the great opening line? What do you like about it? "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet."

I talked about this book with everyone after I read it and the conversation always went the same way:

Me: So, the sister dies...
Other person: OMG! Spoilers!
Me: No, it's the first line of the book, not a spoiler!

"Mary had loved the family axe as a glittering extension of her own arm." - The White, by Deborah Larsen

Something about it gives me chills.

- What are you reading this week? The Project
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Greed is a disease'. I like that it rhymes, but when you think about it, greed is a disease. So many of the worlds problems are caused by greed and the want for money and thing!
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
No I'm not really big into book quotes.

I just finished Last Ride to Graceland,
The first line is I was a premature baby weighing 9 pounds and 9 ounces. My first reaction was, "What?!" until I realized the meaning behind the line! It's a great lead in for the character's quest.

I'm not one to remember quotes.

What are you reading this week?
Middlesex


What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."

This is powerful. You don't know what happened, but whatever it was, it was a life altering, in many ways, event for our leading character. Given all the recent conversation and coverage of transgender rights and issues in the recent months (years), this seems like a fitting story to read, even if it is a work of fiction.

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
I'm sure there are, but I'm always horrible about remembering them unless I write them down :/

I am reading : The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The first line: I was born with water on the brain. This follows the chapter titled - The-Black-Eye-of -the- Month-Club

I have only recently starting underlining book quotes and don't always remember. But the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice is up there.

For this challenge, I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling. The opening line is, "Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways." I love this line because it's such a simple statement about the complexity of Harry's life.

- What are you reading this week? If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it? It's not so much a great opening line, I haven't come across one in quite some time - it's more the opening passages. About 5 pages. But I'll keep it to the first paragraph.

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door, the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice - they won't hear you otherwise - "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything; just hope they'll leave you alone."

The reason I like this is it is about reading and he goes into other scenarios such as the various positions to sit, lay, stand that is most beneficent for reading which types of books, various types of interruptions, things that go through your head as you read. It is about the reading experience in all its vagaries. The book is about reading and how Reader and Other Reader each have a relationship with the book, with each other, and so forth. It is a very in-depth reading experience! I love it!

That book is next on my list once I've finished the book I'm reading, Denise, and I am SO excited to read it.

What are you reading this week?
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon


- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time

It's just so intriguing and I love the notion of a cemetery for books that have been forgotten.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
So many! 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' (A Tale of Two Cities) is a favourite.

- What are you reading this week?
Zero K

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?

"Everyone wants to own the end of the world."




- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

I don't usually remember quotes.

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week?
The Bell Jar
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
The line sets the tone for a book that is described as ominous and heart wrenching. The idea of electrocution is shocking (pun intended). Plus it is a book I want to read and 2 people voted for it on the list Great First Lines.
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
There are so many that I cannot name them all. Most of them are positive though and about love or beauty.

“The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them.”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

“Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

I just recently finished this great book so it is these quotes that are most on mind right now.

I am reading Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter...
When you first disappeared, your mother warned me that finding out exactly what happened to you would be worse than never knowing.

- What are you reading this week?
The Last Refuge by Martin Roy Hill

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?

"It was pure coincidence I happened to be in the P.R. director's office when Jack Sweeney went off the rooftop and ended his sorry little existence ten floors below."

Shannon...that quote. *shudder

- What are you reading this week?
Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall (a children's book)

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars.”
It sound quite matter of fact and complacent, but still outrageous.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
Another quote - among several that I liked from that book - is
“But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.”

What are you reading this week?

Flight Behavior

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Rapture is such a rare word today that it immediately drew my notice. Plus, the sentence immediately draws you into the story.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

“A fresh fall of snow blanketed the asylum grounds — not a Christmas sprinkle, but a man-high January deluge, the sort that snuffs out schools and offices and churches, and leaves, for a day or more, a pure, blank sheet in place of memo pads, date books and calendars.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Darling, don’t let’s ever be afraid of things. It’s such dreadful slavery. Let’s be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let’s dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble.”
— Anne of Windy Poplars | L. M. Montgomery

“I didn’t think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you’d stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him” said Marilla with a dry smile
“We haven’t been - we’ve been good enemies. But we decided it will be much more sensible to be good friends in future. Were we really there half an hour? It seemed just a few minutes. But you see, we have five year’s lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla”
— Anne of Green Gables

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”
— Mr. Darcy speaking the truth. (Volume 1, Chapter 8 of Pride and Prejudice)

- What are you reading this week?
This week, I read a few different challenge books, including The Young Elites for this category.

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"I'm going to die tomorrow morning."
It's the first line of the first chapter, but it's not technically the first line of the book. There's a prologue that begins with "Four hundred have died here." Also a powerful line, but not quite the same. I liked the first line because it hooked me immediately, and I had to know why she was going to die.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us. I'm sure there are plenty, but it's late and my brain is being slow.

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week? The Lost Treasure of Annwn
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it? "It cannot be ruled and chooses it's own path" - OK so technically, this is the title of the prologue - but I went with it anyway.
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us. I love many from Anne Rice. Really, most books I read I see a quote I really like.

What are you reading this week?
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
- Call me Ishmael.
I actually prefer the rest of the first paragraph, but it is often listed as a great opening line.

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
- I can't seem to remember famous quotes, but highlight them when I see them. The last one I highlighted was in Big Fish: It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.
His illness was his ticket to a better place.

- What are you reading this week? Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.

This is such a random line that just draws you in. It makes the reader want to learn more about what the line means and just what is going on here.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us. There are lines aplenty in this book that are insightful, unique and just plain funny, maybe without intending to be.

Here are a couple:

The world is everything that is the case.
I have no idea what I mean by the sentence I have just typed, by the way.

Or, this one:

When I said that Guy de Maupassant ate his lunch every day at the Eiffel Tower, so that he did not have to look at it, I meant that it was the Eiffel Tower he did not wish to look at, naturally and not his lunch.

One's language being frequently imprecise in such ways, I have discovered.

- What are you reading this week?
The Flood Girls
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Every Night, Frank played harmonica for the cats." I like the idea of someone playing a harmonica for cats.
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

- What are you reading this week? Legion

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad."
I like the overall feeling, it leaves me curious and it poses well the topic of the novella.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
I'm not at all in quotes, but I enjoyed this one:
"Great Spirit, if this is a test, if this is part of my path then make my footsteps upon it sure and strong. Help me to endure this. Let me have the will to be everything I can be for myself and for this world."
- Black Feathers, Joseph D'Lacey

What are you reading this week?
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"The christening party took a turn when Albert Cousins arrived with gin." Who doesn't love a turn in the first sentence?

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
Probably lots; I am not very good at remembering though!

- What are you reading this week?
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"My name is Elizabeth but no one's ever called me that."
It made me wonder why no one ever called het that.
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
I like quotes when I see them but I forget them soon after. I should write them down :)

One I do remember (because someone else wrote it down):
“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

What are you reading this week?
Orphan Train

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"I believe in ghosts. They're the ones who haunt us, the ones who have left us behind. Many times in my life I have felt them around me, observing, witnessing, when no one in the living world knew or cared what happened."

Made me wondered what happened that the ghosts are with the speaker.

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

So many. I loved this book!

- What are you reading this week?Moby-Dick; or, The Whale 11/14/16
- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it? Rather the Beauty- : The pale Usher- threadbare in coat,heart,and brain,I see him now . I just do
- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us. Can't think of any

What are you reading this week?
Spindle's End

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over the floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust.
I can imagine the dust in my house being magic just by reading this line. I could always hope that it could be magic and clean itself :)

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”

“Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.”

Anastasia wrote: "What are you reading this week?
Spindle's End

What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious it settled over the land ..."

Magic dust that cleans itself. I love that image and wish that were only true.

- What are you reading this week?
The Bell Jar

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." I like that its lyrical yet gritty.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

What are you reading this week?


What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board."

Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
There's too many to list

- What are you reading this week?
Anna Karenina

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
I had never thought about families in such a simplified way, but there is truth in the statement.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
Lots of Harry Potter quotes, such "Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light."

I was slow about posting to this thread, as it required me to go back and look at my quotes for the year.

- What are you reading this week?

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

The book starts with a major spoiler for the ending and makes the reader want to burn through the book just to find out the how and why as well as if the character can even survive such a thing.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

"Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side." - Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

"One of the King Georges of England - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory." - Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse

"A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences." - The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

"To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"Sister, change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it." - A Song Flung Up To Heaven by Maya Angelou

- What are you reading this week? The Old Man and the Sea

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it? "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish" because in a couple of beautiful lines can describe the tragedy of this man.

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.
I found funny the first line in The Martian : "I am pretty much fucked. That's my considered opinion" lol

And I really love this quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game, but it's not an opening line.

“It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give your whole life to anyone, and, like me, you may turn forty-five one day and realize that you're no longer young and you have never found a choir of cupids with lyres or a bed of white roses leading to the altar. The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh - a pleasure that evaporates faster than good intentions and is the nearest thing to heaven you will find in this stinking world where everything decays, beginning with beauty and ending with memory.”

What are you reading this week?
Notes from Underground

- What is the great opening line? What do you like about it?
"I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased."

It certainly got my attention! The first line of the second paragraph is an attention grabber too:

"I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect."

- Are there any other book quotes that you love? Share them with us.

I am a quote collector! I save them on my Goodreads profile as I find them! Since it's year's end:

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself." - Neil Gaiman