Status Updates From Black Swan Green

this is becoming one of my favs

‘It’ll be all right,'
Julia’s gentleness makes it worse, ‘in the end, Jace.’
‘It doesn’t feel very all right.’
‘That’s because it’s not the end.’

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You
steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret that’s using you? S’pose lunatics mould their doctors, more than doctors mould their lunatics?

I thought how all leaders can sense what people’re afraid of and turn that fear into bows and arrows and muskets and grenades and nukes to use however they want. That’s power.

"How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?"

Recurrence is the heart of his music. We live exactly the same life,
Robert believed, and die exactly the same death again, again, again, to the
same demi-semi-quaver. To eternity.

I'm squealing what a treat this is!!!!!!

OH MY GOD CLOUD ATLAS REFERENCE!!!!! NO WAY!!!!
‘That music, when I came in. Was that your dad’s? It was beautiful. I didn’t
know there was music like that.’
‘The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when
my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.’
Oh my goodness they're all connected!!! They know each other!!! This is so cool!!!!!!

"Beauty is immune to definition"

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

It's interesting hearing the Daily Mail be described as anything other than pure garbage, the old times must be so fascinating