Julie Schumacher quotes
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“Boredom is why God invented books.”
-- Julie SchumacherSource : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.119, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?”
-- Julie SchumacherSource : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.”
-- Julie SchumacherSource : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.116, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.”
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“Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.”
-- Julie SchumacherSource : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.151, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.”
-- Julie SchumacherSource : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.50, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.”
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“I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.”
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
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“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”
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