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A knowing that it is just the right thing to do at this time. It may not be the easiest thing. It may require you to feel vulnerable or take you out of your comfort zone but you will also feel a sense of peace at this hunch is truly a sign of inspired action.

Realizations....

Alas! She gained a genuine friend

I can't believe I'd be hungry reading how they'd pigged out

Nicky's father, Philip. LOL

I won't say much about Daddy and me. The former is the most unassuming of all at table. He looks first to see if everyone else has something. He needs nothing himself, for the best things are for the children. He is the perfect example, and sitting beside him, is the 'Secret Annexe's' 'bundle of nerves'.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

I often lose my cue and simply can't swallow my rage at some injustice, so that for four long weeks we hear nothing but an everlasting chatter about the cheekiest and most shameless girl on earth.

It is really true that as news from outside gets worse, so the radio with its miraculous voice helps us to keep up our morale and to say again, 'Chin up, stick it out, better times will come!'

And as for us, we are fortunate. Yes, we are luckier than millions of people. It is quiet and safe here, and we are, so to speak, living on capital. We are evem selfish as to talk about "after the war:", brighten up at the thoughtof having new clothes and new shoes, whereas we really ought to save every penny, to hep other people, and save what is left from the wreckage after the war.

"He doesn't have any idea what will happen to me, and I don't think it matters to him either way." ☹

"...when you move out and start functioning on your own, you need to grow a pair... Just grow something. You have to suck it up and do the thing that you don't know how to do and are therefore terrified of doing."

"...you can't judge yourself for being such a fuckup when you know that everyone else is struggling just as hard to be a normal human with responsibilities."

No one really knows what they're doing, and I find a bizarre comfort in that. After all, you can't judge yourself for being such a fuckup when you know that everyone else is struggling just as hard to be a normal human with responsiblities.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. For Langdon, the meaning of these words had never felt so clear: In dangerous times, there is no sin greayer than inaction.
Langdon knew that he himself, like millions, was guilty of this. When it came to yhe circumstances of the world, denial had becime a global pandemic.

"...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality."

Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be yraced back to a single moment---a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.

Langdon found himself studying the faces around him, trying to imagine the intricacies of each person's life.
The masses are made up of individuals.

On this path, you can see the repentant souls ascending..each paying an appropriate price for a given sin. The envious must climb with their eyes sewn shut so they cannot covet; the prideful must carry huge stones on their backs to bend them low in a humble manner; the gluttonous must climb without food or water, thereby suffering excruciating hunger; and the lustful must ascend through hot flames to purge themselves

"Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle---like getting to work on time or paying our taxes. If we have wider, existential fears, we jettison them very quickly, refocusing on simple tasks and daily trivialities."

My almost first read for 2017 after an inevitable book slump 😭

He may leave everything behind including lifeless body but not his Harris Tweed. Fudge, Langdon!

It was but a dream

"I will extinguish your final hope of finding what you seek."

I'm so close to DNFing it...

This passage (at 22%) is beyond beautiful, I fell in love and it stuck. "But more than that, she learned how to worry. She, who'd always thought love's only companion was sorrow, learned that worry came hand in hand with love."