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“…Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. We can know what we do is wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”

“‘I'd be a fool to waste myself trying to eradicate it, when it can't be eradicated. The best I can do is exploit the weakness, not ignore its existence.’”

“And ignorance breeds ignorance; an unawakened body and mind sleep through events which awareness catalogues automatically.”

“And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.”

“‘I wonder why you tug so at my nonexistent heart?’”

“‘Perfection in anything,’ she said, ‘is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.’”

“Frank, don't get grand ideas. They only lead to trouble.” “But why should wanting more out of life than drudgery be so bad?” I like Frank the most so far. And Meggie I guess but not much character yet as she is only 4 years of age. The rest are so narrow-minded that it hurts. I understand that way of thinking comes with the time period/setting but still aaarghh!!!

I remember absolutely HATING the miniseries when I was younger. Curious to see if my opinion of this story changes as I read the novel!

“I wish I could invent a verb tense full of open spaces—a tense that didn't pretend to understand the precise mechanisms of which it spoke; a tense that could admit its own limits. As it is, I can't move an inch, finish a sentence, without running into some crisis of imputation or connotation. Every twist of syntax is an assertion of doubt or reality.”

“Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards…”

Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the hell!!!??!!!

So good, I still don't know what's going to happen. Have a few guesses but I'm definitely uncertain.

I don't know what to think! Too many possibilities.

"There, beneath my name, in blue ink and capital letters, are three words." Ahhh

"'societas leonina' — 'sociation with a lion,' that is, a partnership in which all the advantage is on one side."

note to self: review 4.2 brain substrates week after feb.9 bc it won't be included on exam 1.