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A review by torishams
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
4.0
Ok sooooo now I understand why everyone loves this book. It's such a heartwarming exploration of a friendship over time and really considers the idea of platonic love (which I've never seen depicted in a book, and I loved it).
Favorite Quotes:
* the alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures… a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you? (21%)
* because she won on this day, with this particular set of people. we can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. .. and this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that is being played. it’s the same with being an actor. in the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know. (22%)
* we are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen. (36%)
* throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to “fight,” as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational. (47%)
* the way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time. (75%)
* “what is a game?” Marx said. It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.” (84%)
Favorite Quotes:
* the alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures… a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you? (21%)
* because she won on this day, with this particular set of people. we can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. .. and this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that is being played. it’s the same with being an actor. in the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know. (22%)
* we are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen. (36%)
* throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to “fight,” as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational. (47%)
* the way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time. (75%)
* “what is a game?” Marx said. It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.” (84%)