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C.O.G. is the best/my favorite chapter so far. The Incomplete Quad is good too. I don’t think this book is funny as other people find Sedaris hilarious, it’s taken me a long time to get through it.

“How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” p. 32

“I am not so naive as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world.
Books no longer have the power they once did.” Preface xii

“He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.” P. 5

"For it would be a dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had to begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death..." p. 44

If the war was seen backwards it would look like...

She rubbed her hands together, wet from the tears she had wiped from her face. Palm to palm she continued to make a slow delicate rhythm and she was reminded of the calming sensation when you take time to wash your hands... When they dried there was no post tear touch, as if the physical remnants of sadness reabsorbed back into her skin.

Female Life Goal: be like Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon). Don't care what haters are saying, loved her zany brilliance.