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Nearing the end of my fantastical adventure with this book…
Will the world be saved from a 2nd Black Plague or shall they perish under the controversial goal of transhumanism?
Such a great read so far. Will definitely have to check out Brown’s other work, including DaVinci Code.

“Emily did not join them. What did it not matter, that earlier wrote, that being a girl she could never when grown up become a real soldier with a real sword? She has been in an Earthquake.” / pg. 29

“Mummy. It is a word she hates. Why do the English have the same words for a swaddled corpse and cuddly maternity.” / pg.

“‘The Church has always been about sex, dear, that’s what the problem is. Religion has always been about sex. Mostly about denying sex and rooting it out, and people who are trained to deny something and root it become obsessed with it, it becomes unnaturally monstrous, that’s why current moves to be more accepting and celebratory about our sexuality are so exciting—‘“ / Canon Holly, pg. 23

“Things in life is either flesh or money, like they can’t be both at the same time. That would be like somebody being both alive and dead. You can’t. You got to choose.” / Bodie Carlyle, pg. 60

I’m concerned that I already have a quote list going for this book. Went in blind, but I’m not mad that I did…

“…though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of my face in his face, though there was an echo of my voice in his voice, we were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality.” / pg. 40

such a surreal experience. iykyk.

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It’s is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.” / pg. 527
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the ultimate self-help book, lol.

“And then in a whisper: ‘Maybe that is the something here. The only thing here. My end.’” / Navidson, pg. 472

interested to see how navidson’s life is ruined from his obsession with the house even though he had a chance to walk away unharmed and untethered.
well…maybe he is actually tethered to the house.
a part (half) of him died there, if you know what i mean.

“In that place, the absence of an end finally became his own end.” / pg. 338

This pretty much sums up the entirety of the book so far.

“Not even the seeds of one pun are left to capriciously turn the mind aside and tropos is at the center of ‘trope’ and it means ‘turn.’” pg. 150 / Johnny Truant
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In the best state of confusion right now.

“Zampanò himself probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I’ve come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul.” / Johnny, pg. 31

“Emotional energy seems to compose one of the building blocks of dream reality, ever present but hidden within the structure.”

“No sailor controls the sea. Only a foolish sailor would say such a thing. Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream. Like a sailor on the sea, we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of dreaming.”
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So you can’t really control a dream..? Only direct your focus to your awareness within it… I’m gonna need to sit with that for a bit.

Very
Very
Goodt

slow pacing so far :/ but… it’s kind of holding my attention.