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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…they can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them.”

“He gave me an inside of ice so I’d never love you. But it didn’t work. You are so close. You are sleeping in the next room. You are the only warm thing to me. So warm, I am melting.”

“I walked so far that soon I could tell by the patterns the wind had left on the sand that no one had walked where I was walking for a very long time, and I kept walking, feeling a nice freedom, like maybe I could walk the whole world.”

“You don’t get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you’ve washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. There is no word for that dirty water.”

“The thing is — fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream. There aren’t any beasts to be afraid of on this island.”

“…as if they want me to abandon all hope. That’s how dreary people try to keep things here in dry land.”

“Perhaps the most important thing is to have someone to tell things to.”

“What foolish things do you hope for?”

“The lesson being not that love conquered all or that love was eternal, but that there was no lesson much beyond luck, timing what life gives you or doesn’t.”

“Life never quite works out the way you want, and I’ve never known what to make of it.”

“I felt the suspension you feel when you’re fine, but you’re worried it won’t last, and there’s nothing you can do to make it stay.”

“So improvisation is the number-one fear in America….which is funny, because aren’t we all just improvising all day long? Isn’t our whole life just one long improvisation? What are we so scared of?”

“I had then loved so much that hadn’t loved me back. How was so much inequality possible? Who was loved more than it loved back? Perhaps only children. Perhaps that’s why the death of a parent is so painful.”

“On Sunday mornings, I read the Vows section of the Times carefully, not the simple articles of young people getting married, but about the longer, more tangled relationships, those that had been close to breaking apart. The lesson being not that love conquered all or that love was eternal, but that there was no lesson much beyond luck, timing what life gives you or doesn’t.”

“Fitzgerald said that the sign of a genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of genius?”

I’m on page 107 and it’s due tomorrow with no renewals but I really like it so far