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merakiy 's review for:
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
“when a book goes out of the world, the memory does a second death”
“the roar: all his life it has rumbled in the distance. now it rises.”
“adults stand in the living room, their mouths moving like the mouths of nutcracker dolls”
“the heart healed but never completely”
“folded inside that seed is a whole wilderness”
“minerals of panic glitter in the air”
“impossible to unfasten the question marks from such statements”
“turning his neck and shoulder a vivid codon: it frightens seymour that the body contains such an extravagant color”
“a melon rind foams with ants”
“the apparatus…is a way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing”
“already I have seen things I did not know how to dream”
“we believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives”
“all her life she has been led to believe that she is a child born at the end of things”
“I’d walk the lines into my memory”
“money isn’t everything. It’s the only thing”
“He’s a mile and a half from Eden’s Gate but somehow he can still hear it, as though it’s a prison being built around him, as though he’s a fly being wrapped and spun in a spiderweb”
“mapping a single English word onto a Greek one is almost always slippery”
“sod, freshly laid in the backyard of the model townhome, glows a dark, malignant green”
“the moon is still there in the salt but it might fall at any moment”
“as the light bleeds out of the day”
“the crinkling of the paper on the examination table borders on the untenable”
“his voice is calm but his eyes scatter”
“turn a page, walk the lines of sentences: the singer steps out, and congress a world of color and noise in the space inside your head”
“yearning for the monochromatic predictability of lakeport”
“past tense literally causes him back pain, the way it flings all the verbs into the dark”
“the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
“for many of the things you love, it’s too late. but not for all”
“it seems so incredibly, dangerously, promiscuously wasteful: water, given from the sky, in such quantities”
“she blinks; the planet rotates another degree”
“the roar: all his life it has rumbled in the distance. now it rises.”
“adults stand in the living room, their mouths moving like the mouths of nutcracker dolls”
“the heart healed but never completely”
“folded inside that seed is a whole wilderness”
“minerals of panic glitter in the air”
“impossible to unfasten the question marks from such statements”
“turning his neck and shoulder a vivid codon: it frightens seymour that the body contains such an extravagant color”
“a melon rind foams with ants”
“the apparatus…is a way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing”
“already I have seen things I did not know how to dream”
“we believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives”
“all her life she has been led to believe that she is a child born at the end of things”
“I’d walk the lines into my memory”
“money isn’t everything. It’s the only thing”
“He’s a mile and a half from Eden’s Gate but somehow he can still hear it, as though it’s a prison being built around him, as though he’s a fly being wrapped and spun in a spiderweb”
“mapping a single English word onto a Greek one is almost always slippery”
“sod, freshly laid in the backyard of the model townhome, glows a dark, malignant green”
“the moon is still there in the salt but it might fall at any moment”
“as the light bleeds out of the day”
“the crinkling of the paper on the examination table borders on the untenable”
“his voice is calm but his eyes scatter”
“turn a page, walk the lines of sentences: the singer steps out, and congress a world of color and noise in the space inside your head”
“yearning for the monochromatic predictability of lakeport”
“past tense literally causes him back pain, the way it flings all the verbs into the dark”
“the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
“for many of the things you love, it’s too late. but not for all”
“it seems so incredibly, dangerously, promiscuously wasteful: water, given from the sky, in such quantities”
“she blinks; the planet rotates another degree”