Noah's Compass Quotes

“Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts. ”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which.”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“those who forget the past tend to regret the future”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“We live such tangled, fraught lives, he thought, but in the end we die like all the other animals and we're buried in the ground and after a few years we might as well not have existed.
This should have depressed him, but instead it made him feel better. The light turned green and he started driving again.”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“Pg 191 "He's not good for my mental health" was a strike against her - one of the New Age remarks that only the young and self-centered would make. Oh, definitely he was better off without her.”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“Pg 191 "He's not good for my mental health" was a strike against her - one of those new age remarks that only the young and self-centered would make.Oh definitely he was better off without her.”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass

“embarrassingly”
― Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass