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A page turner for sure, I can’t put this book down!

"'It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'"

"'"Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up." What's the point of saying this to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. ... If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away.'"

"I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn't choose...I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to."

"I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us, as individuals."

"News was what really sold newspapers. News was what the reader wanted - hard fact, history's dawn, truth you could base a judgment on. But when newspapers perished it was because people like Duffie figured that the creation of "content" to separate the ads - in the paper or on the web - was a mechanical process that could be achieved without people like Shelby. Like me. No new was very bad news indeed."

"Well then why do we need all these books?" the boy asked. "so that we can understand those few lines," the Englishman answered, without appearing really to believe what he had said.

"if someone isn't what other want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

"'Some men there are who go down the dismal wrack of soldiering, surrender themselves, and become faceless. But these had not much face to start with... But there are others who...rise more themselves than they were, because - because they have lost a littleness of vanity and have gained all the gold of the company and the regiment. If you can go down so low, you will be able to rise higher than you can conceive'l

Quick read - really good!

Bought this today at a used bookstore in Adams Morgan, and I'm excited to get started!