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“That is what I’m hoping you will understand—every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.”

“In literature, everything means something.”

“If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?”

“Sang Ly, we /are/ literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow.”

“Without faith, there is no refuge.”

“‘You know, it’s funny the way you said that.’
‘The way I said what?’ Mosscap asked.
‘That you don’t need /an object to facilitate that feeling/.’ Dex gave a single chuckle. ‘You /are/ an object facilitating that feeling. The feeling’s coming from /you/, after all.’”

finally on the reading grind again

Read this a few days ago, forgot to update…

“You, too, are cut out for failure; not that you’d fight the world. You’d let it chew you up and spit you out, and you’d lie there wondering what was wrong. Because you’d always expect the world to be something it wasn’t, something it had no wish to be.”

“‘You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing.’”

"...because no child should ever be so used to fitting around a parent that they will suggest the food they least like themselves."

"She lives trying not to set a match to Gordon's anger, but still she spills petrol about her, dripping it over shoes she has forgotten to polish, sloshing it across a particular shirt not washed in time. She races from thing to thing, tending to whatever might spark, but it's always something behind her, just out of sight that she hadn't thought of."

"'Why does it matter? To Dad, I mean. The same-name thing.'

Cora wants to say it matters because sometimes big men feel small inside. Because some people-like Gordon's father-travel through life believing themselves so far beyond improvement, they come to think their children, and their children's children, should all be made in their name."

"After Doreen left, I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should anymore. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired."

"It doesn't take two to dance, it only takes one."

"I knew you'd decide to be alright again."

"The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you."

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

"Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

"Does he exist in the same way I exist?
'You do not exist,' said O'Brien."

"She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated."

are we serious rn.

"And in front of him, there lay not death, but annihilation"

"The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."

The intro is actually good - I'm really excited to read this (even though everyone else in my year has said it's bad).

Honors ELA book, don't fail me now...

I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK (finally, after hating the last few I've read..) but sometimes Dex pmo.

"Dex wanted to inhabit a place that spread not *up* but *out*."