231. Sing You Home, Jodi Picoult

Such a good book, the best one of Jodi Picoult's.

About a gay couple who fought to have the right to frozen embryos of one of the couples which she created with her former husband. Except that the husband has now found redemption in an evangelical church, and wants those "pre-born children" raised in a good Christian family, like his devout Christian brother and his wife. The story was written in a few different perspective, it was SO hard take sides. Such a captivating book.

230. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

"Atticus, you must be wrong...."

"How's that?"

"Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong...."

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." (11.54-57)


'Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.'


'People in their right mind never take pride in their talents.'