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“I’ll remember,” said Frank, and wondered if Brack knew that sometimes words had two different, opposite meanings.
“It’s the place where reality strikes the ideal, where a joke becomes serious and anything serious is a joke. The magic point where every idea and its opposite are equally true.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me that men had walked on the moon. “No,” he said, putting down his fork. “It’s true,” chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way. “I don’t believe it.” “I saw it,” said Bunny. “It was on television.” “How did they get there? When did this happen?”).”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“There’s a pattern and we’re a part of it. Yet if you scratched very deep at that idea of pattern (which apparently he had never taken the trouble to do), you hit an emptiness so dark that it destroyed, categorically, anything you’d ever looked at or thought of as light.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“When this place still had the pretense of being governed, then there was something against which to rebel. That’s when a few storefronts were broken, when some looting occurred, when teenagers ran wild through schools and the library, throwing books and desks against the walls. But when the city government collapsed, when everyone finally walked away from responsibility, then the destruction and rebelling all soon came to an end.”
― The City Where We Once Lived
― The City Where We Once Lived
“There is, among us sitting on the stage and among the people in the South End who have forgotten about this place and among even the people living here, including the few of them sitting in this room, there is not just an absence of money. There is an absence of will. Desire. Need. And without those things,” she says, sitting forward, “this place will not ever change. Accept that. Because without it, this is how life here will always be.”
― The City Where We Once Lived
― The City Where We Once Lived
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