"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Review: The Dispossessed
Review: Every Day
“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough,” David Levithan
Review: Beloved
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
Review: Dumpin’
“I don’t know. I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you’re trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can,” Julie Murphy
Review: All the Bright Places
“The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave,” Jennifer Niven
Review: A Closed and Common Orbit
“If you believe you have control, then you believe you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you… well, they’ve got to be somewhere lower, right? Every species does this. Does it again and again and again.” ~ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
Review: Louisiana’s Way Home
“In some ways, this is a story of woe and confusion, but it is also a story of joy and kindness and free peanuts,” Kate DiCamillo
Team Review: The Return of the King
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Review: Specials
“I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed,” Scott Westerfeld
Review: Shopgirl
“He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.” ~ Steve Martin, Shopgirl
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