Thaddeus Book

“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory