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Julé Cunningham<p>"Madden and Palimi and Bryson, though, contested the analogy, arguing that the internet was better understood as a collection of monologues, or even as a bar room, “because most of its users are men, and most of the talk is of sex and sport.” These unbounded monologues are inherently uncuratable, which brings us back to the central message of Borges’s infinite library. Without boundaries and selection and navigation, libraries are useless." -- from 'The Library' by Stuart Kells</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WednesdayBookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WednesdayBookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Sarah J Hoodlet<p>I'm so in love with this book.</p><p>This is the fourth quote I've noted, and I'm only halfway through it. I look forward to reading it each time I pick it up, and I'm already sad for when it will be over.</p><p>It has some of the most beautiful writing I've ever read. There's a mix of history, environmental awareness, and hypothetical science—all connected through the life of a raindrop.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/HistoricalFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalFiction</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a></p>
Julé Cunningham<p>"Nature has all the power. The day they tame the white truffle will be a dark day. The white truffle will become commonplace. And we will once again be suffocating on our self-admiration while we mourn the enchantment of mystery." -- from 'Tartufo' by Kira Jane Buxton</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
David Brent 📚<p>"You could have driven past, but didn't. He needed somebody, and you stopped and listened. You're a man who stops and listens. If that's not the definition of friendship, it's close enough for now."</p><p>- Lark in "I Cheerfully Refuse" by Leif Enger</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuoteWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuoteWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> @bookstodon</p>
Julé Cunningham<p>"It seemed to him a contradiction: people bought beautiful houses, spent millions of yen so that the windows would face south, the wood would be cedar, and the ceramics in the cabinet would be from the most exclusive potters, but then accumulated so much stuff that you could no longer see any of it; even the light had to make space for itself like water seeping between the furniture and clutter." -- from 'The Heartbeat Library' by Laura Imai Messina, trans. Lucy Rand</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Julé Cunningham<p>"I often hear the impersonal form when people have to talk about communism. As if people had no influence on anything and were unwilling to take personal responsibility. As if to remind me that they were just part of a greater whole, which also had some sin of denial on its conscience." -- from 'Proof of Love' in 'Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia' by Mariusz Szczygiel, trans. Antonia Lloyd Jones</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WednesdayBookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WednesdayBookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
David Brent 📚<p>"He sits crouched in the chair with his head down on the desk, and his eyes closed, in a state of misery and peace." - Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuoteWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuoteWednesday</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Content Catnip<p>Comforting Thought: Other people’s opinion of you doesn’t matter <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selflove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selflove</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfesteem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfesteem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookquote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookquote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YungPueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YungPueblo</span></a></p><p><a href="http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/16/comforting-thought-other-peoples-opinion-of-you-doesnt-matter/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">contentcatnip.com/2025/04/16/c</span><span class="invisible">omforting-thought-other-peoples-opinion-of-you-doesnt-matter/</span></a></p>
Kem Herkes<p>I worked on my Rollover series documents today, and while hunting up names in stories I came across a line I love that I forgot I'd written. So I made a picture for it, because that's what I do, and now I'm sharing it, because I like to share.</p><p>Big thanks to the <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> spreadsheet prompt for reminding me I had a workbook to update.</p><p>Oh, hey, this counts for Apr 12 SaM too! <br>Self-promo: this is from my newish story collection: <br><a href="https://books2read.com/RelicsFromATravelingShow" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/RelicsFromATrav</span><span class="invisible">elingShow</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookArt</span></a></p>
Felicity Shoulders<p>“…In Time, these People are able to forget ev’rything. Be willing to wait but a little, and ye may gull them again and again, however ye wish, – even unto their own Dissolution. In America, as I apprehend, Time is the true river that runs ‘round Hell.” <br>— “Charles Mason,” Mason &amp; Dixon, Thos. Pynchon</p><p><a href="https://pie.gd/tags/amReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amReading</span></a> <a href="https://pie.gd/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a></p>
Julé Cunningham<p>"I am filled with images that I cannot shake. They reveal themselves in color, they are born from the strokes of my inner mind. Shape and shadow. Form and line." -- from 'The Mask Carver's Son' by Alyson Richman</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Kem Herkes<p>Continuing my <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> w/pretty pictures thread. </p><p>This one is a bit from Flight Plan, bk 2 in my completed Restoration series. (Tagline: Move Slow, Fix Things.)<br>Two people who have been utterly shattered by life learn to heal together.</p><p><a href="https://books2read.com/FlightPlan" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">books2read.com/FlightPlan</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scifi</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p>
Kem Herkes<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> 4</p><p>When your main character is a poet, descriptions from their POV can skew to the lyrical side of things.</p><p>Grace goes through a lot in this book.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Kem Herkes<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> 3 comes from my only published romance (so far) </p><p>Hm. Should I be putting links on these? I'd be thrilled if they got boosts, but I'm not making them for promo purposes. I make them to remind myself the words are beautiful.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Procrastinating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Procrastinating</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/FillingTheCreativeWell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FillingTheCreativeWell</span></a></p>
Kem Herkes<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> 2. This one's from my favorite story in the newest book, Relics From A Traveling Show.</p><p>A <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> prompt about poetic lines got me started thinking about these quotes. </p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Kem Herkes<p>Fancifying words with pretty graphics makes me happy. It's always my goal to bring joy to others, too, so I'm sharing some of the pics I've made from my own books. </p><p>In case it's not your thing, I'll tag them all with <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> for ease of muting.</p><p>Here's the first one.</p>
Julé Cunningham<p>“They know things from so deep and far that we have forgotten that we have forgotten that we have forgotten them.” -- from 'Impossible Creatures' by Katherine Rundell; illus. Virginia Allyn</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Julé Cunningham<p>"I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the shh of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch tapping, chipmunks digging, beechnut falling, mosquito in my ear, and something more-something that is not me, for which we have no language, the wordless being of others in which we are never alone." - from 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
David Brent 📚<p>"Firmness, I may observe, was the grand quality on which both Mr. and Miss Murdstone took their stand. However I might have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I had been called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in my own way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certain gloomy, arrogant, devil’s humour, that was in them both." - From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuoteWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuoteWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CharlesDickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesDickens</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Julé Cunningham<p>"Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour, piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers—the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps—and flowers that grow only in borders in England, proud flowers keeping themselves to themselves over there, such as the great blue irises and the lavender, were being jostled by small, shining common things like dandelions and daisies and the white bells of the wild onion, and only seemed the better and the more exuberant for it." -- from 'The Enchanted April' by Elizabeth Von Arnim</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>