Basically, I'll Read Anything: January 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

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I'm back and I'm going to continue writing a review about every book I read. However, even though I am about six months behind I intend to review them all in order of how I read them. It might take me a few months to catch up, maybe I never will.
But I read 80 incredibly good books this year, and I think they deserve to be written about. Enjoy!

Some Quotes

They say, Here's the truth, and I say, Is that all there is? And they say, Kind of. Pretty much. As far as we know.
-Neil Gaiman

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?
-Rowling

So, she can be the innocent girl and the prostitute and the author, eh? Well, imagine a full deck of cards, each card painted with symbols of women- the waif, the harlot, the mother, the warrior, the queen- until the last card, on which we see Medea, a knife in her raised, implacable hand. Yes, I am there and any woman can be, even though we don't stand up on stages and make a fuss about it. And we can skip lightly back through the deck, carelessly touching each card as we do, before returning to the good mother, or the lover... Every women knows all about everything on these cards, even if her knowledge is wordless and half-conscious. It is wordless knowledge because it is too big for words. Sometimes, it is too big for us.
-Mary Gaitskill

When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
-GK Chesterton

To say that metaphysics is a culture phrase or misapprehension that can be put aside is also a metaphysical statement. The notion of accident does nothing to dispel mystery, nothing to diminish scale. I consider the common account of the sense of emptiness in the modern world to be a faulty diagnosis.
-Marilynne Robinson

Arithmetic be damned. "I'll wait for you" was elemental. It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.
-Ian McEwan

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