Status Updates From Go Set a Watchman

“The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won’t be that way much longer.”

"Mr. Stone set a watchman in church yesterday. He should have provided me with one. I need a watchman to lead me around and declare what he seeth every hour on the hour. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."

Alexandra was at the kitchen table absorbed in culinary rites. Jean Louise tiptoed past her to no avail. “Come look here.”

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 19). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

I’ve been putting this off for years…time to read it now. The audiobook is narrated by Reese Witherspoon, so at least there’s that!

Ini maksud Paman Jack apa sih...

“You know, if you get in trouble at school or anything—you just let me know. I’ll take care of you.” Jem sauntered from the livingroom, leaving Jean Louise wide-eyed and wondering if she were fully awake.

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 19). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, “He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman,” had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 19). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Home for nineteen hours and you’ve already indulged your predilection for ablutionary excesses, hah! A classic example of Watsonian Behaviorism—think I’ll write you up and send you to the AMA Journal.”

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 18). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Efek kurangny seks edu di zaman itu gede bgt 😞