I recently started ordering BuddyBoxes from The Blurt Foundation. Not because I am depressed, but who wouldn't like a hug in a box sometimes. I received two so far and The Little Book of Kindness was in the second one, among other things. It is a small book, I read it over two evenings, but …
Continue reading The Little Book of Kindness – Bernadette Russell
Harris and I would go down in the morning, and take the boat up to Chertsey, and George, who would not be able to get away from the City till the afternoon (George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him …
Continue reading Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome – Quotes
In short, this was a period in which the phrase ‘you’re never alone with a good book’ started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat. - I never got to that stage, even when I hit a reading block it rarely lasts more than two days, I may need something lighter to …
Continue reading The Year of Reading Dangerously – Andy Miller – Quotes
Drunkenness was general, and there are continual references to citizens falling from their solars to the ground, falling down steps into the Thames, falling off ladders. London is not a civilised nor a graceful city, despite the testimony of the maps. It is tortuous, inexact and oppressive. It could never be laid out again with …
Continue reading London: The Biography – Peter Ackroyd – Quotes
“Do you think we’re brittle?” she’s been known to ask him. Terrific sense of humour is one thing, but brittle is another. “Of course we’re brittle,” he has answered. “We were born brittle! But seek the bright side: you can’t have much taste unless you’re brittle.” He doesn’t add that Jorrie fails to have much …
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and the struggle for …
Continue reading The Art of Travel – Alain de Botton – Quotes
The opening of the book contains the ecstasy of a release that every woman who has experienced marriage and motherhood will recognize and many will envy: the opportunity to be alone, to have space and privacy with no demands made upon her, to eat and sleep when she pleased, to have silence and solitude and …
Continue reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden – Elizabeth von Arnim – Quotes
