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mika_ rated In the Skin of a Lion

 In the Skin of a Lion 7/10

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mika_ rated Reflections in a Golden Eye

 Reflections in a Golden Eye 6/10

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mika_ rated We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 7/10

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"But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail." "Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school." "Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary." "The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look."

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"All whose origins involve Chaos are shapeshifters."

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"Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning." "Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes for both." "Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure." "There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence."

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"...despite all we still live with the decisions of the dead." "I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect."

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"This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature." "It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others." "Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy." "I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory." "What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realised? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self-rebukes never really inflicted pain? Well, there was all this to reflect upon, while I endured a special kind of remorse: a hurt inflicted at long last on one who always thought he knew how to avoid being hurt - and inflicted for precisely that reason."

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mika_ rated The Sense of an Ending

 The Sense of an Ending 8/10

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"'We all go to heaven leaning on the arm of someone we helped.'"

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"That's what an education does. It makes the world personal."

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mika_ rated The Sunset Limited

 The Sunset Limited 6/10

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"'...asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.'"

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mika_ rated Totalitopia (Outspoken Authors)

 Totalitopia (Outspoken Authors) 8/10

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"'Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.'" "...discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world to come, where everything is the same but a little different because the past will be citable in all of its moments, including those that from our present present happened but never occured."

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