Things have been a little slow here at Shelf Space the last few weeks, but let’s kick things into high gear again. Today I want everyone to share a quote from their most recently acquired book.
It can be a book you purchased, borrowed from a friend, checked out from the library or downloaded to an e-reader – whichever book most recently came into your possession.
Here’s my entry:
“So Jackson’s just one white neighborhood after the next and more springing up down the road. But the colored part a town, we one big anthill, surrounded by state land that ain’t for sale. As our numbers grow bigger, we can’t spread out. Our part a town just gets thicker.”
~ “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
-Winnie the Pooh
I love Pooh Bear
I love Pooh, too! I could use a few days of that … Doing Nothing … and not bothering.
Also from The Help, ‘After Mother berates me about finding a husband every other day, I have to sleep in a wedding cake’….and another ‘I make my way acoss the crowded meeting room, feeling the warmth of attention, as if a beam of light is shining down on my head. The room is full of cake-eating, Tab-drinking, cigarette-smoking women all about my age’
The Tab-drinking part took me back to my childhood
From The Other 90% by Robert Cooper, here are a couple that really stand for me, “To live life to the fullest, none of those views will do. Instead, we must learn to wisely devote most of our attention to the present while always holding it in light of the past’s lessons and the future’s possibilities.”, and another one, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi