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« I liked the way she held my eyes until the precise moment when it stopped being comfortable, and then smiled, softening the assail, but never looked away. »

“If you are following the path of your dreams, then commit yourself to it fully. Don’t leave the exit door open with the excuse ‘No, this isn’t quite what I wanted.’ Those word contain the seed of defeat. Embrace your chosen path, even if you do occasionally stumble, even if you know you could do better if you accept what you are capable of doing now, in the present, you will be sure to improve the future

« We’ve been walking so fast that we no longer know what we’re doing. Now we need to wait for our souls to catch up to us. »

This sentiment says so much about our fast paced modern lives, and why, sometimes, we stop.

“Ok the road to Santiago he learned another exercise, which consisted of sticking the nail of his index finger into his thumb whenever he had some negative thought…By having those thoughts manifest themselves in the form of physical pain, we come to understand the damage they do.”

So I finally read something where I was able to “crack a code.” On page 124 and 125, some of the words on the list should be read backwards, and in that way it makes more “sense.”
Which now complicates my reading because now I’m going to think there are more “tricks” I need to spot.
My my.

Bereshit Bara Elohim Et Ha-Shamaim V-Et Ha-Aretz

The first sentence of the Bible in Hebrew transliterated.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I like to include this because of the extreme poetic nature of the text in Hebrew… Bereshit Bara… alliteration, right off the bat.
“Resh” also means “head.”

Then how could you tell that Ed was home just because of some shoes on the cellar steps?

Because I could smell them, I said. And a cold shoe never smelled like that. Ed just had to be around somewhere near because those were what I call the five-minute shoe.

😂

“We passed a man munching on an orange.”

I looked up the word “munch.”
I had never looked up the word munch, before.
I was suspicious of its usage here, I felt the word more suitable for apple.
But why, why do I feel this way? Is it because it sounds like crunch? Does the word contain an auditory component, or do I assume it does because of the rhyme?
It contains an auditory component.

“Fine. I guess you and your St. Augustine poster can spend next Friday night alone together.”
😂
Oh don’t mind me. I’m just laughing because it’s hard to believe I don’t have a St. Augustine poster.

No no this line is hilarious.

What was the value of a life? a life which had gathered love and pain and a grandeur unto it—-only to have an outside thing destroy and to make mock of its dearest intentions. How was the soul of man to withstand the adventure into that outsideness?

A description of what happens to the soul in times of war. It withers.

Men who cry out to God because they are stricken of spirit, seek not Him but an image of their own soft wishing.

“We don’t see the sun…
this puny gang—to look at the sun! Have you come far? We see what we think.”

What a blazing way to drive the point home, by comparing reality to the sun we cannot look at too long without dire consequences, to call humanity a “puny gang,” puny for it cannot behold the sight!

He took one of my eyes out and squeezed it into a deep oval before putting it back. I admire you, he said, wiping his fingers off on his cartridge belt.
And I you, sir—(particularly through the eye that made him about twelve feet taller than he was in the other)—

Well now what fun is this, mister Patchen!

Somebody once said that if you take a
tree out of the ground you’ll leave a hole.
Same thing
you take a man out of his life.

“The cabinet smelled like butter and sugar and that first moment when you step into a theater.”

Gosh that must be like the best smell ever!

Nice local color for us Angelenos. A good choice to read if you’re interested in Hollywood depicted honestly (minus the whole it’s haunted here and there bit). It means she talks about the painful traffic we go through haha

I’m reading the digital copy, but I hear the audiobook for this is something fun. ;)

“There were lots of people taking pictures of their drinks and themselves—something the devil would never do.”