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the_ragtag_reader's Reviews (271)
“Did evil have wants and needs? Surely not, surely that would make it too human. No longer a tug from the depths of the abyss, but something sentient that could surface in anyone.”
“Be aware of a beautiful moment as it is happening, take note of your life, as you are living it.”
“Preoccupied with a single leaf... you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree... you'll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in it's entirety... effortlessly. That is what it means to truly see.”
“We don’t need magic to make our wishes come true. It’s an ability innate in all of us. It comes from the courage and the privilege given by those who love us even as we make mistakes and get hurt in the process. It’s not magic given exclusively to the chosen ones, but something both you and I have.”
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This world is made up of little stories. Those modest daily lives, those lives that may seem insignificant, they give the world shape - that's what I believe. Don't you think that presenting small stories in detail is precisely the most certain way to depict huge things?”
“Haven’t you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are—at this instant—poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago?”
I can’t do animal cruelty, especially to dogs. While the boys do show remorse, it is pretty graphically detailed (I skimmed). Rest of the book may be fine, but it’s just one of my very few NOPEs.
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It grows because you tend it.' This was a phrase often repeated by my great-aunt when she was alive. 'That's how love is,' she used to say. 'If the love is true, then treat it the same way you would a plant - feed it, protect it from the elements - you must do absolutely everything you can. But if it isn't true, then it's best to just let it wither on the vine.”
“For her, the phrase the same as ever had two meanings. The first was an expression of relief and satisfaction that events hadn't taken a turn for the worse. The second was as a sign of self-deprecation, a means of mocking herself for remaining ever predictable, for never venturing forth from the fixed, rigid outlines of the life she had built.”
“Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth…”
Delightfully weird!
Delightfully weird!