“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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