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"What is life for?" he asks himself. "What is my life for?"
Oh, he thinks, will I never forget? Is this who I am after all, after all these years?

"Life is so sad, he would think in those moments. It's so sad, and yet we all do it. We all cling to it; we all search for something to give us solace."

"You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs."

Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?

Willem, Willem, Willem...the love and respect I have for you...

"Second, he would try--as Brother Luke had once asked him--to show a little life, a little enthusiasm."

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f**k caleb
f**k anyone who's been part of jude's misery
f**k all the miscommunication in the book that could've been avoided

I never liked JB that much anyway

No but the ONLY thing that makes me giddy and happy is when JB is describing how successful and vicious Jude is in court, and how people notice that. Like yessss that's my smart boyyyyy

"Are you happy?" he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).
"I don't think happiness is for me", Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat. "But it's for you, Willem."