AAmell’s Reviews > The Cider House Rules > Status Update

This book has been too happy for too long. I fear some serious shit is about to hit the fan.

“Whatever is brought to me, whatever is coming… I will not move out of its way. Life [is] finally about to happen to [me].”

“Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we- monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children.”

“These same people who tell us we must defend the lives of the unborn- they are the same people who seem not so interested in defending anyone but themselves after the accident of birth is complete!”

Oh my fucking god, absolute worst case scenario…

Ah shit. This ain’t gonna be good.

“From now on, let everything I do be for a reason. Let me make no wasted moves.”

“When you lie, it makes you feel in charge of your life… when you lie, you feel as if you have cheated fate- your own, and everybody else’s.”

“I must part with you for my whole life. I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes.”

This quote struck my soul:
“Life was just a job. He had grown up without noticing when? Was there nothing remarkable in the transition?”