There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on’s house keys.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.
I want this job.” “Many people do, my girl.” “How do I get it?” Maya asks. “Reading, as aforementioned.” Maya nods. “I do that.” “A good chair.” “I have one of those.” “Then you’re well on your way,” Daniel tells her before setting her back on the ground. “I’ll.
In the end, we are collected works.
The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much.
Remember: you are as good as you are tomorrow.
I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.
Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you’re the only person in the room.
She doesn’t recognize the number – none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.
I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.
He felt comfortable and broken-in like favourite jeans.
I longed for Mum in the most primitive way.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
It is a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you’re forty.
Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life.
Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.” Maya is shaking her head. “Dad, I’m sorry. I don’t understand.” “We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too much. I haven’t wanted to read one yet, though.
Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of ‘quality.’ But it’s forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.