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"Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires."

-lines 57-58

this is hype, y'all.

"I'll be gone before I can adjust to my mortality."

-page 10


I already know this will wreck me.

"But Gawain only smiled:
'Should I waste my time
With fear? Whether pleasant or wild,
fate must be put to the test.'"

-lines 562-565

Surprisingly, I loved the ending :)

"Edgetho's
Famous son started at death,
Unwilling to leave this world, to exchange it
For a dwellingin some distant place—a journey
Into darkness that all men must make, as death
Ends their few brief hours on earth."

-lines 2586-2591


This book was EPIC!! (See what I did there...because it's an epic...hahaha...) Seriously though, one of my favorites. Very action packed and entertaining.

OH IT'S LOVELY IT'S LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"

-page 27

Might end up being my new favorite book....

"You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized."
-page 3

I may be only seven pages in, but it is absolutely delectable. I can't read it fast enough. There is so much to unpack and discover in every corner....

RUSS
And you can go f— yourself.

KARL
Well, that is over the line, mister. That is not language I will tolerate in front of my wife.

RUSS
(beat, then: )
She’s deaf, Karl! Completely – (waving to BETSY, fake-jolly) Hello, Betsy! Go f— yourself!

(BETSY smiles, waves back.)

-page 91 of the play where my mouth progressively falls more and more open in sheer shock

"Then isn't there something wrong in a house—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?"

-135

"Sometimes it's like I can see the future stretched out in front of me—just plain as day. The future, Mama. Hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me— a big, looming blank space—full of nothing. Just waiting for me. But it don't have to be.”

-73-74

so freaking good

"I can't understand how anybody as intelligent as you are can show evidences of such stupidity."

-page 109

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
-180

The most beautiful book I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I will not be recovering for quite some time.

"I stared at him and then Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before—and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
-page 124

FLABBERGASTED. UTTERLY FLABBERGASTED BY CHAPTER SEVEN.

"Something changed irrevocably, in those few dark minutes James was submerged, as if the lack of oxygen had caused all our molecules to rearrange."

-page 79

ooooooo some drama is occurring

"For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."

-page 99

beautiful wonderful fantastical lovely little book

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

-page 35

"I do not call people insane because they differ from me, not even from a majority of people. You might as well with as much propriety call Galileo mad; or Newton; or Jesus; or Luther; or Morse who electrified the world!"

-74

"We're only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we're afraid to show people who we really are."

-page 27

"You are just as sane as I am."

-13

"Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke."

-10

“And if only we stopped for just a moment in time to realize all that we have and all we can be, that patience is important for both you and me. To know life’s true beauty is to surely understand and everyone in life is just doing the best they can.”

-page 173

"After exhausting life in his efforts for mankind's spiritual good, he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the mighty and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are all sinners all alike."

-page 241

"After exhausting life in his efforts for mankind's spiritual good, he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the mighty and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are all sinners all alike."

-page 241

"But it will calm the swell of passion, like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea."

-page 68

beautiful.

why is he such a diva i love him

"In one case, however, it is real sunshine; in the other, it more resembles the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood."

(he's calling people wood)

-page 16 "The Custom-House"

pretty solid read.

This book, honestly, was so much better than I expected it to be. Foster helps break down hard to understand topics and literature in a way that students are easily able to understand, and he provides plenty of examples (too many, if you ask me. The guy's a yapper.) I also love that he included the test case at the end so we can see for ourselves the skills we've picked up along the way of reading.

I'm going to be honest, the entirety of chapters five and six were... not really necessary. The author was really just giving examples for chapter four in both of them, and I feel like I just wasted time.

Stop yapping, dude.