N.K. Layne’s Reviews > The History of Love > Status Update

"At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn to not look at it a a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of better word, being human."

This book has been on my to read shelf for Iike seven years and it really holds up... Just beautiful, really.

"Sometimes, driving along the BQE as the sun is going down, you get a view of all those thousands of gravestones as the skyline goes up in lights and the sky glows orange, and you get the weird feeling that the city's electrical power is generated from everyone buried there."

"As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard. He had thought the possibilities of human silence were endless. But as the bullets tore from the rifles, his body was riddled with the truth. [...] There's no match for the silence of God"

"But now if you wanted to find her all you had to do was follow the pages of crossed-out words, and at the end of the trail she'd be there, looking out the window or into a glass of water as if there were a fish in it that only she could she."