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“From what Blaise could tell of the American people…tended to sectarian madness. Religion ran like poison through their veins, followed by–or mingled with–racism of a sort in dreamed of in wicked old Europe. There was always a “they” at whom a pejorative verb could be launched, automatically transitiving “they” to the ominous all-evil “them” who must be destroyed so thatEden could be regained.“

“Something happens to people who experience intense longing. Their eyes slowly dim, and they lose the ability to see the beauty in their surroundings, in their everyday life.”

I wish you enough
Enough sun to lighten your days,
Enough rain that you appreciate the sun.
Enough joy to strengthen your soul,
Enough pain that you can appreciate life’s small moments of happiness.
And enough friends that you can manage a farewell now and then.

“It’s heaven in a bun. It’s what all of civilization has been heading towards… A hotdog. Well!“

“I think a lot of conversations become like that as you get older. Sort of code, not saying what you mean, and hoping everyone else knows the rules.”

“Violet finished the library book and closed it with a snap. Yet again, a self doubting, fluttery, bird brain heroine has been swept away by a masterful man.… Violet wondered whether people should be prosecuted for writing novels like that.”

“Tribalism and genders violence.“

“Do not equate nationalism with patriotism,” Perry warnedJuliet. “Nationalism is the first step on the road to fascism.“

“The guardian of the lake was a lonely man, the more so because he had a wife.“

“She was like a burning cinder, slowly losing the glowing energy that kept her alive.“

If one thing really annoys me, it's stupid women in thrillers.

"oh no, I'm not going to file a restraining order against my stalker... that's too much work. I'll just close my curtains."

“The truth…is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”

“… The novelist’s only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they dobut jest,poison in jest: no offense in the world.”

I think the only reason I got through this was because it was the only book I had on the plane.

“We had the moon in the window to smile on us for a minute and tell us the world was ours. Because all the adults had gone off somewhere and left everything in our hands.”

“But a thing grows teeth once it’s put into words.“

“She went from room to room, floor to floor, stack to stack, reveling in books, books, books. She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. the way they smelled and looked; the way they felt in her hands; the way the pages seem to murmur as she turned them. Everything there is in the world, she thought, is in books.“

“Want and want and want.”

“It tasted like Vera was trying to be okay.”

“We hardly spoke after that because everyone was hurt and no one was brave enough to fix it.“

“Vera felt broken by tiredness.”

Not a great beginning. Life is full of truths, like…. You have to pee?!? Really?

“We are all the unreliable narrators of our own lives.”

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh! Libby deleted my audio book as I was listening to the last 5 minutes!

I was searching for this under “Einstein’s Dreams”. 😆

“I can multitask like an octopus.“

“Dangerous things, wishes. Sometimes they come to you when you call. sometimes they fly away after biting you.”