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Allison
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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
“Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!”
― The Ghosts of Ashbury High
― The Ghosts of Ashbury High
“None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.”
― Skybreaker
― Skybreaker
“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person."
What kind of person, he wanted to know.
"Someone," she said slowly, "who truly loves life."
He was still looking at her, still cradling his glasses in his left hand. He said, "You're the kind of person who never stops trying.”
― Late Nights on Air
What kind of person, he wanted to know.
"Someone," she said slowly, "who truly loves life."
He was still looking at her, still cradling his glasses in his left hand. He said, "You're the kind of person who never stops trying.”
― Late Nights on Air
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?”
― Chasing Vermeer
― Chasing Vermeer
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