Book: Sir Apropos of Nothing
Author: Peter David
Quote: "You're trying to bait me, Morningstar. And you're quite good at it. You are," and I doffed an imaginary cap, "a master baiter."
Chp. / Pg. #: Ch. 10, pg. 170
Author: Peter David
Quote: "You're trying to bait me, Morningstar. And you're quite good at it. You are," and I doffed an imaginary cap, "a master baiter."
Chp. / Pg. #: Ch. 10, pg. 170
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
"I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habits of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing."
Chapter 87, Page 453
Book: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Author: Gordon Dahlquist
Quote: "Moreover, vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find we find that our own are dear to us."
Chp. / Pg. #: Ch. 3, pg. 164
Author: Gordon Dahlquist
Quote: "Moreover, vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find we find that our own are dear to us."
Chp. / Pg. #: Ch. 3, pg. 164
Book: Shampoo Planet
Author: Douglas Coupland
Amazon Link: here
Quote 1
"Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realizing there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete."
Chp. 7
Quote 2
"Out east I see power lines down in the middle of a harvested barley field. Oddly, the cables on either side of a transmission tower have been severed and drape from the triangulated outstretched aluminum arms like a mother weeping for her kidnapped child, holding forth samples of her missing child's pajamas to the CNN cameras."
Chp. 33
Quote 3
"It's just that all of your history in Europe is so seductive. All of your costumes and buildings and old music and perfect little tins of cookies. History tricks you into not valuing what you have now. History's dead, but right now is alive."
Chp. 53
Quote 4
"Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in it's rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its in habitants, and the city continues it's dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong."
Chp. 56
Author: Douglas Coupland
Amazon Link: here
Quote 1
"Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realizing there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete."
Chp. 7
Quote 2
"Out east I see power lines down in the middle of a harvested barley field. Oddly, the cables on either side of a transmission tower have been severed and drape from the triangulated outstretched aluminum arms like a mother weeping for her kidnapped child, holding forth samples of her missing child's pajamas to the CNN cameras."
Chp. 33
Quote 3
"It's just that all of your history in Europe is so seductive. All of your costumes and buildings and old music and perfect little tins of cookies. History tricks you into not valuing what you have now. History's dead, but right now is alive."
Chp. 53
Quote 4
"Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in it's rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its in habitants, and the city continues it's dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong."
Chp. 56
- Mood:accomplished
Book: This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
Author: Aidan Chambers
Amazon Link: www.amazon.com/This-All-Pillow-Book-Cord
Quote: 'What's wrong with your plan, Mister Dictator Blacklin, is that you are going to Cambridge pronto, no gaps allowed, I insist my dear sweet lovely gorgeous I'd-like-to-jump-you-right-now let's go to bed instead of having this stupid conversation which I am sorry I started on, because, as I said half an hour ago, your heart is set on studying with Mr. Professor Doctor the Greatest Tree Ecology Expert in the Entire Universe Rackham, it is your Big Ambition, and I am not going to be the one to get in the way of you achieving it at the earliest possible opportunity, because, also, I'm afraid that if you take a gap year only so that we can be together you'll fret and resent me for causing you to wait instead of getting on with your work, which you very well know is as important to you as living with me--'
Chp. / Pg. #: pg. 727
- Local:A*STAR
- Mood:indescribable
Book: Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Amazon Link: link
Chp. / Pg. #: --
Quote:
Author: Ian McEwan
Amazon Link: link
Chp. / Pg. #: --
Quote:
"There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have."
These passages touched me a great deal.
Book: The Zahir
Author: Paulo Coelho
Amazon Link: link
Chp. / Pg. #: Don't remember each.
Quote One:
Quote Two:
Quote Three:
Quote Four:
Book: The Zahir
Author: Paulo Coelho
Amazon Link: link
Chp. / Pg. #: Don't remember each.
Quote One:
"No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy."
Quote Two:
"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives."
Quote Three:
"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."
Quote Four:
"Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”"
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
"Was it from a police charge or, once again, from history that I ran away? Does it make any difference? Did I go to the march because of a moral choice or to subject myself to yet another test of Opportunity? Granted, I was either too early or too late for all the great Opportunities, but that was the fault of my birth date. I would have liked to be in that field of bullets, shooting, even at the price of hitting Granny. But I was absent because of age, not because of cowardice. All right. And what about the march? Again I ran away for a generational reason: it was not my conflict. But I could of taken the risk even so, without enthusiasm, to prove that if I had been in the field of bullets, I would have known how to choose. Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one -- had you had the Opportunity? I wonder how many of those who opt for fighting today do it for that reason. But a contrived Opportunity is not the right Opportunity.
Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it. You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is it possible that I really did seize it once, without knowing? How can you feel like a coward because you were born in the wrong decade? The answer: You feel like a coward because once you were a coward.
But suppose you passed up the Opportunity because you felt it was inadequate?"
Chapter 16, p. 108-109
"Was it from a police charge or, once again, from history that I ran away? Does it make any difference? Did I go to the march because of a moral choice or to subject myself to yet another test of Opportunity? Granted, I was either too early or too late for all the great Opportunities, but that was the fault of my birth date. I would have liked to be in that field of bullets, shooting, even at the price of hitting Granny. But I was absent because of age, not because of cowardice. All right. And what about the march? Again I ran away for a generational reason: it was not my conflict. But I could of taken the risk even so, without enthusiasm, to prove that if I had been in the field of bullets, I would have known how to choose. Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one -- had you had the Opportunity? I wonder how many of those who opt for fighting today do it for that reason. But a contrived Opportunity is not the right Opportunity.
Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it. You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is it possible that I really did seize it once, without knowing? How can you feel like a coward because you were born in the wrong decade? The answer: You feel like a coward because once you were a coward.
But suppose you passed up the Opportunity because you felt it was inadequate?"
Chapter 16, p. 108-109
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“You’re asking me or you’re telling me?”
“Sorry. Telling you.” Adrian stopped. “I have a feeling it’s kind of urgent.”
Caston leaned back in his chair. “You feel that?”
“Yes, sir.”
Caston studied the young man, like an entomologist scrutinizing a gall wasp. “And you’re…sharing your feelings. Interesting. Now, am I a member of your family, a parent or sibling? Are we pals? Am I a spouse or girlfriend of yours?”
“I guess —”
“No? Just checking. In that case – and here’s a deal I’m proposing – please don’t tell me what you feel. I only care about what you think. What you have reason to believe, even with only partial certainty. What you know, by observation or inference. As far as these nebulous things called feelings are concerned, keep them to yourself.” He paused. “I’m sorry. Did I hurt your feelings?”
“Sir, I —”
“That was a trick question, Adrian. Don’t answer it.” (p 26-27)
- The Ambler Warning, Robert Ludlum
“Sorry. Telling you.” Adrian stopped. “I have a feeling it’s kind of urgent.”
Caston leaned back in his chair. “You feel that?”
“Yes, sir.”
Caston studied the young man, like an entomologist scrutinizing a gall wasp. “And you’re…sharing your feelings. Interesting. Now, am I a member of your family, a parent or sibling? Are we pals? Am I a spouse or girlfriend of yours?”
“I guess —”
“No? Just checking. In that case – and here’s a deal I’m proposing – please don’t tell me what you feel. I only care about what you think. What you have reason to believe, even with only partial certainty. What you know, by observation or inference. As far as these nebulous things called feelings are concerned, keep them to yourself.” He paused. “I’m sorry. Did I hurt your feelings?”
“Sir, I —”
“That was a trick question, Adrian. Don’t answer it.” (p 26-27)
- The Ambler Warning, Robert Ludlum
"Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that laid under the sun that felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."
-- Willa Cather, My Ántonia
-- Willa Cather, My Ántonia
"Peter Howell could con a tribe of cannibals into turning vegetarian," CIA officer Randi Russell, a mutual friend of theirs, had once told him [Jon Smith]. "And probably persuade them to pay him for the privilege." (p187)
- The Lazarus Vendetta, Robert Ludlum
- The Lazarus Vendetta, Robert Ludlum
- Mood:calm
"You're not just coming out of the closet. You're standing on the porch waving a flag," I told her."
"My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful."
"That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain."
"Knowing there was no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry."
- All from "Driving With Dead People" Monica Holloway.
"My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful."
"That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain."
"Knowing there was no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry."
- All from "Driving With Dead People" Monica Holloway.
- Local:Living Room.
- Mood:sore
- Tunes:Bones.
"Out my window the sun was coming up, but not for everyone. Some of us were dead."
"The way I saw it, Dad was just mad. He drove mad, he ate mad, and if anything turned him happy, he ruined it immediately."
"Aunt Evelyn took the news of her husband's death badly, but she took the news of the twenty-nine-year-old girlfriend with a heavy sedative."
"Granda, there's a tornado warning. You need to get over here and get in the basement," I urged.
"Honey, there's not a tornado strong enough to blow my fat ass out of this trailer. Don't worry about your granda."
- All from "Driving With Dead People" Monica Holloway.
"The way I saw it, Dad was just mad. He drove mad, he ate mad, and if anything turned him happy, he ruined it immediately."
"Aunt Evelyn took the news of her husband's death badly, but she took the news of the twenty-nine-year-old girlfriend with a heavy sedative."
"Granda, there's a tornado warning. You need to get over here and get in the basement," I urged.
"Honey, there's not a tornado strong enough to blow my fat ass out of this trailer. Don't worry about your granda."
- All from "Driving With Dead People" Monica Holloway.
"We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room. In the city, I wasn't a girl without a father. I wasn't outside of things. I wasn't even Rosemary. In a city there is no one who can tell you who they think you are, who they want you to be." - The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay, pp 12-13
- Mood:melancholy
"People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. "
-- Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Help I am Being Held Prisoner - Donald E. Westlake
There are three rules one should live by, if one intends to make it successfully through life: Don't carry a sofa upstairs by yourself. Don't get involved with a Scorpio unless you mean it. And don't argue with crazy people.
- Tunes:Who'd of Known - Lily Allen
But he was too late - she came up close against him with a forlorn whisper.
"Take me."
"Take you where?"
Astonishment froze him rigid.
"Go on," she whispered. "Oh, please go on, whatever they do. I don't care if I don't like it - I never expected to - I've always hated to think about it but now I don't. I want you to."
She was astonished at herself - she had never imagined she could talk like that. She was calling on things she has read, seen, dreamed through a decade of convent hours. Suddenly she knew too that it was one of her greatest roles and she flung herself into it more passionately.
--Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Take me."
"Take you where?"
Astonishment froze him rigid.
"Go on," she whispered. "Oh, please go on, whatever they do. I don't care if I don't like it - I never expected to - I've always hated to think about it but now I don't. I want you to."
She was astonished at herself - she had never imagined she could talk like that. She was calling on things she has read, seen, dreamed through a decade of convent hours. Suddenly she knew too that it was one of her greatest roles and she flung herself into it more passionately.
--Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Frankly, by the way I have been treated by the so-called 'civilized' people in my life, I rather look forward to residency among the savages."
- May Dodd, from One Thousand White Women (highly recommended)
- May Dodd, from One Thousand White Women (highly recommended)
- Mood:chipper
- Tunes:"Spring Street" - Dar Williams
. . . I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species, especially the Europeans.
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