The Saving Graces: A Novel
Registered by grover3d on 7/20/2002
2 journalers for this copy...
Got this from my best friend and we both LOVED it....going to pass along to another friend.
Received this book from BCer. Thanks so much! TBR
Hee, hee. I am logging some books from storage and came across this one as yet unread. Shall put it up toward the top.
update: July 7th, 2005 -- this is next after Summer Secrets, by Barbara Freethy, c. 2003 -- link goes to blog as it's from library. See entry of July 7th, 2005 -- so much for putting it up on the top of the pile :). I'm blushing
I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.
I took the bus home. I've got a car, but I like to take the bus or the subway around the city, it gives me time to think. If I'm in a good mood, I like to look at my fellow passengers and speculate on their lives, measure them on the narrow, unforgiving scale of Emma's crtieria for normalcy. If I'm in a bad mood, I like to sink deeper and deeper into it while I stare lifelessly out the window of the No. 42 or the Red Line Metro, converting every building, every pedestrian, every telephone directory into a metaphor for corruption, decay, and urban ennui. It cheers me up.
But today I was beyond bad moods or good moods. I was flummoxed. I'm my best friend, I trust me, I keep a constant conversation going with myself - audible, if I'm alone - and it's important to me that I know myself. Vital. Otherwise, chaos. p83
[comment: I can relate.]
I hated to preach, but I'd waited too long and now I had things to tell him.
"Never throw love away, never, neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind." I pressed my lips to his forehead. "Don't take so much for granted," I whispered. "That's my final bit of wisdom, and it's the most important." p377
[comment: chatting to her grown son]
update: July 7th, 2005 -- this is next after Summer Secrets, by Barbara Freethy, c. 2003 -- link goes to blog as it's from library. See entry of July 7th, 2005 -- so much for putting it up on the top of the pile :). I'm blushing
I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.
I took the bus home. I've got a car, but I like to take the bus or the subway around the city, it gives me time to think. If I'm in a good mood, I like to look at my fellow passengers and speculate on their lives, measure them on the narrow, unforgiving scale of Emma's crtieria for normalcy. If I'm in a bad mood, I like to sink deeper and deeper into it while I stare lifelessly out the window of the No. 42 or the Red Line Metro, converting every building, every pedestrian, every telephone directory into a metaphor for corruption, decay, and urban ennui. It cheers me up.
But today I was beyond bad moods or good moods. I was flummoxed. I'm my best friend, I trust me, I keep a constant conversation going with myself - audible, if I'm alone - and it's important to me that I know myself. Vital. Otherwise, chaos. p83
[comment: I can relate.]
I hated to preach, but I'd waited too long and now I had things to tell him.
"Never throw love away, never, neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind." I pressed my lips to his forehead. "Don't take so much for granted," I whispered. "That's my final bit of wisdom, and it's the most important." p377
[comment: chatting to her grown son]
I just finished it this morning. It was a good read. I'm pleased that the ending was pretty realistic. Thanks for sharing! Shall rerelease soon.
I'm going on a short trip to Smoky Mountains and Tennessee. I shall leave this on my travels :)
