December 2011
3 posts
Please Don't Jump: Excerpt from "Eating Animals" →
nojokesfact:
Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, “I could not have slept tonight if I had left those poor…
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“Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he’s...”
– Frank Reese, poultry farmer, in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals
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“Killing an animal oneself is more often than not a way to forget the problem...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
November 2011
2 posts
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“I even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it. After I got...”
– CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
“And you could laugh, Sally. You could go to sleep and wake up and never have to...”
– Esperanza, The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
October 2011
5 posts
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“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
– A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (via bookville)
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Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not...
art-is-notdead:
The Catcher in the Rye: Mr. Antolini, Chapter 24
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“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with...”
– J.D. Salinger (Catcher In The Rye)
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“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
– THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger.
What I like the most about this line is that Holden just told us this whole story. He just shared with us a huge, important part of himself, and I feel like I know him. Along with the personal style of writing- as if he’s talking right to me- this makes...
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“I mean, he was very intelligent and all, but you could tell he didn’t have...”
– A CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger
September 2011
7 posts
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“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“‘Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner.’ Dr. Mahmoud leans in. ‘Life...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“I was in eighth grade and I had gotten into high school and I was going to a...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“Oh, right, God. Forgot about him. He’s definitely, according to Mom, going...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“The absolute worst part about being depressed is the food. A person’s...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“Like, for example, my American History class last week, which necessitated me...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I’ve been through so...”
– IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini
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“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into...”
– NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t...”
– NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
August 2011
9 posts
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go)
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“I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures...”
– Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (via mountainsoutofmolehills)
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ebbedcolours asked: Hi I'm cas I was wondering if you could recommend me a good book :)
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July 2011
11 posts
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“Mickey Day was an angry man.
he had been angry when he worked as a high-school...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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““Why storytellers? Why not Indian scouts or Sherpas? People with a sense...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“They could have gotten help for this infertility but they believed that...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“The Universe is very, very big.
It also loves a paradox. For example, it has...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“Most Americans are disappointed because they are not in show business....”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“He continued to mutter the word please quietly as the turbulence threw the plane...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“Directly opposite the St. Germain Metro entrance in the bustling, noisy square...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“Hillbillies are much maligned, as most of them place hospitality and kindness...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“I-40 runs all the way from Nashville, Tennessee to Barstow in California, where...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
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“As it is with success, sometimes he got too excited to sleep. He thought about...”
– BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson
June 2011
3 posts
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“Have been unavoidably detained by the world.
Expect us when you see us.”
– Tristran’s letter to his mother, STARDUST by Neil Gaiman
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“He found his hands twining, almost of their own volition, into the star’s...”
– From STARDUST by Neil Gaiman
May 2011
23 posts
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“As the wisest here know, it isn’t a sad thing getting older. On Earth, the...”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our...”
– PEEPS by Scott Westerfeld
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“People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that’s the end of...”
– PEEPS by Scott Westerfeld
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“‘Darling, I’m through with romance, and I have been for some...”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“I’ve been here before. The truth is, intimacy doesn’t have all that...”
– Owen, ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even...”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly...”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even...”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“No one actually needs another person or another person’s love to survive....”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
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“There are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of...”
– ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin