Think Aloud
You tried to teach me this years ago, how getting to the good stuff required a free fall into the unknown, that that was where the real joy would always be waiting. The prize was at the bottom, gambles and perils and hazards be damned.
Deborah Reed, Things We Set on Fire
It took me a long time to learn this type of bravery. I was 27.
Harriet Paige, Man with a Seagull on His Head
There is a lot of truth in this sentence for some people. From what I hear and have seen, marriage and cohabitation makes us all slack off when it comes to maintaining our relationship. We come to take our spouses for granted. We think they will always be there, so we can always ask them about their day tomorrow. Today we want to rest after a long day at work and we have done all the socialising and patient listening that we can for this day. We will love our spouse tomorrow.
But sometimes there is no tomorrow.
Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Heinlein is an amazing author. I’m having such a wonderful time listening to this novel on audio. Despite it being great to listen to, I’m also drawn to reading it in book format as there is so much detail and feeling in this novel that I know I’d enjoy more reading them as words on a page.
Gayle Forman, I Was Here
It’s funny that I knew this intrinsically when I was a little kid. At least that’s what I’d like to think. In reality I was probably just an annoying show-off.
Nick Hornby, About a Boy
What a beautifully written book. On my list of to-read-agains.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
This was a very sweet novel to read. And this quote is lovely.
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Pagliacci.”
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Alan Moore, Watchmen
My god, it’s Gandalf!
But what a great graphic novel. I had no idea that Moore also did The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen (which is sitting on my desk right now–I’d spotted it in the library and picked it up).
I love this paragraph so much. Interesting commentary about comedians and why humanity find them funny… because most of them are depressed and down on their luck. No one laughs when a person talks about how successful they are. Laughter is reserved for one’s failures.
There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.
Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things
It’s all bias, isn’t it?
This was a great novel, by the way. I think it was overshadowed by The Hate U Give, which came out around the same time and covered a similar theme. But as always with Picoult’s books, I was very moved. Would read again.
Stephen King, The Stand
I need to read The Stand again. Is the movie ever getting done, by the way?
Just Words In Your Head 