ALEC S’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

“Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil.”

“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because ‘Thou mayest.’”

“Was she very beautiful, Samuel?”
“To you she was because you built her. I don’t think you ever saw her-only your own creation”

“You have no love.”
“I had-enough to kill me.”

“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener and well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape.”