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"There is something very unsettling about this book" — Mar 21, 2016 12:47AM
"There is something very unsettling about this book" — Mar 21, 2016 12:47AM
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"First few pages: dismal thought experiment and matching tone :/" — May 21, 2017 04:00AM
"First few pages: dismal thought experiment and matching tone :/" — May 21, 2017 04:00AM
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"So bizarre in how it's both wise and juvenile. I feel like I'm nodding in total agreement of what young Noah says most of the time about the world, and then I'm totally confused/alarmed/repulsed when he acts out against Jude. Then again, it is a book centred around sibling rivalry ... Particularly of the twin sort ..." — Mar 30, 2017 06:12AM
"So bizarre in how it's both wise and juvenile. I feel like I'm nodding in total agreement of what young Noah says most of the time about the world, and then I'm totally confused/alarmed/repulsed when he acts out against Jude. Then again, it is a book centred around sibling rivalry ... Particularly of the twin sort ..." — Mar 30, 2017 06:12AM
“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”
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“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
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