“143 says I love you.” – This Time Tomorrow
The main character in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow, goes to sleep on the eve of her 40th birthday and wakes up as her sixteen-year-old self in the 1990’s. As…
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June 17, 2023
“You can’t give what you don’t have.” – We Are the Light
This simple line from Matthew Quick’s We Are the Light (2022) struck me as a short, but powerful string of words. It made me think about what my husband often…
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May 12, 2023
“Was there a mechanism on earth with more moving parts than a marriage?” – The Vibrant Years
After celebrating my twenty-third wedding anniversary this past January, this great line from Sonali Dev’s hilarious and heartfelt novel, The Vibrant Years, painted a huge smile of understanding on my…
March 24, 2023
“Being motherless was different than being fatherless.” – True Biz
This great line, from Sara Nović’s True Biz, intrigued me. The author goes on to assert that being motherless was “primal, the archetype for human suffering, like losing the North…
January 19, 2023
“Preparation is the key to effective spontaneity.” – The Authenticity Project
I highlighted this line in The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley because it made me laugh. It was a sarcastic jab at one of the characters in the book portrayed…
November 21, 2022
“To know something is there, yet be unable to grasp it, is torture indeed.”- Remarkably Bright Creatures
It’s been almost two months since I read this great line, formed in the mind of an octopus (yes, an octopus), from Shelby Van Pelt’s unique, emotional, and inspiring novel,…
October 10, 2022
“Imagine if all men took women seriously.” – Lessons in Chemistry
I don’t want to write about this. I want to leave the headlines and the politics to someone else. But in the last week, I’ve realized there is no way…
July 1, 2022
“We’re all small at the ocean; none of us have control.” – The People We Keep
Like most great lines I write about, this one illuminated a light bulb over my head. Yes, it came the morning after we found something unexpected (something we could not…
May 31, 2022
“We begin at the end.”
"We begin at the end." Yup, that’s my one great line pick this month and the title of Chris Whitaker’s recent book. It’s rare for a book title to hit me…
March 31, 2022
“Parenting is Savage.” – Fault Lines
If there was ever a sentence spoken by a character that sums up a story in three words, "parenting is savage," is it. Plus, I don’t know of a parent…
January 31, 2022