Felt the need to compile some of my Kindle highlights as I've hit my first anniversary with mine. Shoutout to pre-iPad days on my Nook with James Patterson and Dork Diaries. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have my present days of Murakami and manga. Enjoy!
"As a young actor, I reveled in the variety of accents and the accidental poetry that occurred when one person had to translate what they were thinking in one language in order to express it in another."
one thing feeds the other
"The simple beauty, as you put it, is from things not always aligning. There is no simple beauty in perfection."
"But a heart changes everything. Once, there was a woodsman made of tin. He said, 'I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
"That's at least a part of my happiness, I think. Knowing I'd be found."
"No civilization can survive indifference. It spread like a poison, turning fire into apathy, a dire infection whose cure requires more than most are willing to give."
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me."
"Me ken dem yam mit a kendel nit ois' shepen." (You can't ride in all directions at once)
"Light is only possible through dialogue between cultures, not through rejection of one or the other."
"The old ways will not survive here. There are too many different types of people. Too many different ways. Maybe I should be a cowboy."
"Pretending to know everything and acting like you're better than you know you are puts a terrible strain on a body. It makes you a stumbling stone to your own justice."
"I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness."
"Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall."
"Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed by eyes."
the nasty-sweet guts of the earth
"I am incensed that reality has the audacity to do some of the things it does when I CLEARLY don't want those things to happen." -Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages -- a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers."
"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally, I find that encouraging."
"The anecdotal mileage in this will be inexhaustible."
"It never stops happening. Everything will change."
"I am whole and complete. I will never run out. And I am more than enough. (I think they call it a 'a breakthrough.')"
"The lyrics of the Smiths' 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' are the most neatly worded explanation of the reality of life and summarize the initial optimism than crashing bathos that is the first five years of one's twenties with elegent concision."
"I know how liberating it feels to be loved and accepted with all my flaws in return."
"Doors slamming, branches snapping, fruit falling."
If you made it this far, let me know your favorite quote! Did any of these excerpts get these titles on your TBR? I'm always looking for new recs. My list is plenty long, but those presented to me with gusto can get bumped up on the queue.
Cheers,
Mo
P.S. I can't predict my consistency for this semester, so I won't set anything up to be let down. I have exciting projects and new classes and opportunities arising from such that I will be more than happy than to put down on the page. Stay tuned, and thanks for skimming.
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