abeereads’s Reviews > M Train > Status Update

I love books that make you feel something

(also the last few paragraphs were so great enough to convince me to read more of her work)

"Images have their way of dissolving and then abruptly returning, pulling along the joy and pain attached to them"

"We want things we cannot have. We seek reclaim a cer- tain moment, sound, sensation. I want to hear my mother's voice. I want to see my children as children. Hands small, feet swift. Everything changes. Boy grown, father dead, daughter taller than me, weeping from a bad dream. Please stay forever, I say to the things I know. Don't go. Don't grow."

OH MY GOD THE WELL!!!!!! How did we get from childhood momentos to time travel to portal to masterpieces with such flow and ease and sense?!!!! By far one of my favorite so far

"Tasks were completed, sump pumps manned, sandbags piled, trees planted, shirts ironed, hems stitched, and yet we reserved the right to ignore the hands that kept on turning. Looking back, long after his death, our way of living seems a miracle, one that could only be achieved by the silent synchronization of the jewels and gears of a common mind."

"Not all dreams need to be realized. That was what Freld used to say. We accomplished things that no one would ever know."

"If I got lost along the way I had a compass that I had found embedded in a pile of wet leaves I was kicking my way through. The compass was old and rusted but it still worked, connecting the earth and stars. It told me where I was standing and which way was west but not where I was going and nothing of my worth."