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history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.
“She knew that stories did have the power to change things: the past and the future, even the present. She had been an agnostic since graduate school, but if there was one tenet of Judaism with which she agreed, it was this: the power of words. They weaseled under door cracks and through keyholes. They hooked into individuals and wormed through generations.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“In Simon’s voice, he heard the siren song of family—how it pulls you despite all sense; how it forces you to discard your convictions, your righteous selfhood, in favor of profound dependence.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“If my diary is ever published, it can’t be called Old Sore. I have come up with the following alternatives: 1. Down the Drain 2. The Living End 3. Over and Out 4. Not the Bee’s Knees 5. The Last Hurrah 6. Smoke Signals in a Hurricane (Sounds good but doesn’t really apply here) 7. Flies on the Caviar (ditto)”
― The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
― The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
“Once, long ago, Dory and her infant daughter were riding a bus in the city, when an old woman leaned over and said, “May I tell you something, dear?” She had a kind face full of valleys and faults. Dory imagined she was about to describe the baby’s beauty—in particular, the curve of the mouth—and she made her own mouth assume a knowing, pleased modesty. But what the woman said, leaning even closer, was, “You will never have another day in your life that is free of anxiety.”
― The Uncoupling: A Novel
― The Uncoupling: A Novel
“When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone’s ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but to impart a different kind of knowledge, an expanded sense of possibility. The point is not to negate reality but to peel back its scrim, revealing reality’s peculiarities and contradictions. The very best magic tricks, the kind Klara wants to perform, do not subtract from reality. They add.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
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