“I am a somebody of value.”
It is inexplicably unfair of me to claim to relate to the words of Abi Daré’s character Adunni, in The Girl with the Louding Voice—she is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl…
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October 25, 2020
“I pressed my hand against my own face, felt the same structure beneath my skin.” – Red at the Bone
In Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson, a theme of mother-daughter relationships flows throughout the book. This great line, “I pressed my hand against my own face, felt the…
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September 24, 2020
“Our hands don’t care they’s different colors.”
In The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, the principal character is a blue-skinned pack horse librarian in Kentucky who delivers books to residents isolated in the…
August 11, 2020
“So much could be solved if we simply held hands with each other more often.” – Dear Edward
This great line made me think about how much our lives have changed this year. “Holding hands” in today’s virus filled world is what we’re not supposed to do, at…
July 15, 2020
“It feels like opening her mother’s mouth.” – American Dirt
In her book American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins could have written, “looking in her mother’s purse feels personal” and left it at that. I would have known what she meant. Instead,…
June 17, 2020
“She thought of books as medication and sanctuary and the source of all good things.” – The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
This great line from The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman, is one I couldn’t have said better myself. This book has been called a love letter to…
May 16, 2020
“When women are gathered together with no men around, they don’t have to be anything in particular; they can just be.”
This great line from City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert reminded me how much I rely on the female friendships in my life—especially now, as Covid-19 has forced us to…
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April 25, 2020
“It’s like a pool where you can’t touch the bottom.”
This great line from Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes, like any great line, had multiple interpretations for me. The most obvious one being that the coronavirus has taken…
April 11, 2020
“You made me recognize that my heart is in fact a bottomless hole of simultaneous pleasure and despair.” -The Most Fun We Ever Had
In The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo, the mother of four daughters says this great line in her mind as she thinks about her eldest daughter. This…
March 28, 2020
“Yale was a wet washcloth, and someone was squeezing everything out of him over a sink.” -The Great Believers
This great line from The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai alludes to the main character’s exhaustion at his situation, a situation he couldn't plan for and one that was out…
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March 13, 2020