Do you ever
wish that some lines are too good to read only once? The lines that make you take
a pause and move you. It may be because the writing is so wonderful or because
it resonates with something in your life. It is fun to read such lines for a
second time.
Here is a bunch of such savoured 'highlights' from my e-reader.
Totally random and in no particular order.
Evolution
has a simple explanation. Some things are good to eat, and some things are
trying to eat you. At the most basic level, an organism needs to be able to
discriminate between these two categories of things from rest of the world.
Goodwill
isn't enough, is it, Juliet?
Isola saw
Eli's face over Elizabeth's shoulder and told Eben that it had that beautiful
light children have before the Age of Reason gets at them.
Reading good
books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
I can't
think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I
can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
Reading
keeps you from going gaga.
Humour is
the best way to make the unbearable bearable.
Snug as a
bug in a rug.
There was
one of those content, absorbed silences that go with good food.
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wonder if that is sort of the point of architecture.
Jesus Christ
on a bike.
The darkest
places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of
moral crisis.
Happy
families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
It would be
awesome to fly in a super fast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the
world for a while.
Of course,
love has no respect for questionnaires.
It is said
that a character in a book is one third someone you know, one third yourself
and one third made up.
"I'm in
your hands", I said. Standard polite method for avoiding a choice and
empowering other person.
Education is
a drawing out, not a putting in.
What colour
are your walls? Your sofa? Do you arrange your books alphabetically? Are your
drawers tidy or messy? Do you ever hum, and if so, what? Do you prefer cats or
dogs? Or fish? What on the earth do you eat for breakfast? You see? I don't
know you well enough to marry you.
My thoughts
are stars I can't fathom into constellations.
You gave me
a forever within the numbered days.
Like, cancer
is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business.
Grief doesn't change you Hazel, it reveals you.
