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Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so.

When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud, "If this isn't nice, what is?”

"Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with your sensitive fingertips. A large part of our brains is devoted to deciding what our hands are touching, is good or bad for us. Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us."

... he observed that there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

#2/2

First, the subjects were injected with infected lung tissue taken from the dead and then sprayed in the eyes, nose and mouth with infectious aerosols. If they still failed to succumb, they had their throats swabbed with discharges taken straight from the sick and dying. If all else failed, they were required to sit open-mouthed while a gravely ill victim was sat up slightly and made to cough into their faces.

My favorite part (just because of rediculous methods they had back then) from the book about spenish flu #1/2

In an attempt to devise a vaccine, medical authorities conducted experiments on volunteers at a military prison on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. The prisoners were promised pardons if they survived a battery of tests. These tests were rigorous to say the least.

“Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices.

But they were made out of thin invisible steel.”

Switching to audiobook version.

Aurora could not recall that she had been precisely heartbroken - her heart had never had time to get focused exactly - but for several years thereafter she did feel that life was a comedown in some respects.

“That's one of the only things I look forward to about an evening like this, you know -someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the whole point of civilization is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening. Otherwise you have no one with whom to talk over whatever may have happened during the evening."

Continuing after a long pause. Now I am ready, Mr. McMurtry.

At thirteen, everything counts; there are sharp edges on everything, and all of them cut. Some drugs can recreate that intensity of feeling, but adulthood blunts the edges, dims the colors and taints everything with reason, rationalization, or fear.

At night I climbed the long flight of stairs alone, undressed in the dark because I could not reach the light, and went to bed. I was not afraid and did not know that other children were tucked in bed and kissed good night by parents not too tired to make an extra trip up a flight of stairs after hard day's work.

The first chapter reminded me of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - great opening!

This quote made my day.

Dad reads great fat books too, but they're not modern, they're all classics - Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. If we have a look at Dad's book we wonder what the Dickens they're on about and they seem very Hardy.

Strange style, does not resemble any of the books I've read so far.

Just reading about these zodiac signs and imaging the drawings (they look like something like these👹👿) the book has made me immediately turn on all the lights of the house 😱😨. Even in the full sunshine the house is not as bright as now. Going back to being afraid from childish things. Rowling - don't do that to me!

Going slow... This book is so heavy, I have a muscle workout every time I pick it up.

I said, ‘I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.’

‘Ah!’ said [Captain], ‘I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.'

“Stick to your dreams, don’t let anyone put you off what you want to do.”

How did I not know about these series? Seriously, legal drug for a good mood.

This one has a full potential of becoming one of the best Christmas books of this year!🎉🎊

“Dignity is trained into royal children before they can toddle, graciousness, consideration for others, an unshakable belief in the greatness of their position.”

1:50 min.

Went to bed with a book and without a bookmark.
-Page folding?
-How dare you!