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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35f9d7b | Having lost his mother, father, brother, and grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city, his history--his home--the usual charge leveled against comic books, that they offered merely an easy escape from reality, seemed to Joe actually to be a powerful argument on their behalf. He had escaped, in his life, from ropes, chains, boxes, bags, and crates, from handcuffs and shackles, from countr.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8d45f9f | Sammy started to pull the covers up over him. Then he stopped and just stood there looking at Tommy, loving him, and feeling the usual spasm of shame that it should be while he was watching the boy sleep that he felt most like a father, or rather, the happiest to be one. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 819547d | It was awful luck that my pot-hobbled spermatozoa had managed to rally themselves for one last mad fallopian adventure, and that five years' worth of love, good companionship, and the exhilaration of sneaking around should come in the end to a referendum on my fitness as a father, but there it was. | Michael Chabon | ||
| fed2f5b | And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,It is this, it is this! | Thomas Moore | ||
| 8324043 | male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c042b99 | It reassured me that, if nothing else in life, at least I'd fulfilled my earliest ambition simply to wander far afield, in spirit if not in space, from the place of my birth. | Michael Chabon | ||
| adb9137 | And there were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworks and the Bessemer converter of love. | Michael Chabon | ||
| bc5c391 | We're just animals in a cage. They're just feeding us to keep us alive. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c3942eb | I wasn't unkind to him. I just didn't talk to him. I didn't talk to anybody, and I didn't want anybody talking to me. That was the plan. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 037867a | A few peace activists, looking like peace activists all over the world, young, unassailable, and romantic, hand out roses. The message is old, the gesture likewise: the flower as a sign of good. There's a flaw in the symbolism, however, a permanent gash in this goodness: the flower withers. It lives for a moment. Then it withers in your hands. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 2615d6a | The hair on the back of the neck stood erect and you ran, in spite of yourself, ribs ringing with panic, certain as a child running up the cellar stairs that something very bad was after you. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 764739c | The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The smoke of his tobacco was the foulest that she, a girl raised in a house with seven brothers and a widowed father, had every been obliged to inhale. It hung in the room as thick as sheepshearing and made arabesques in the harsh slanting light from the window. | senses smell smoke | Michael Chabon | |
| e1ff17d | It was the voicing of a vain wish, when you got down to it, to escape. To slip, like The Escapist, free of the entangling chain of reality and the straitjacket of physical laws. Harry Houdini had roamed the Palladiums and Hippodromes of the world encumbered by an entire cargo-hold of crates and boxes, stuffed with chains, iron hardware, brightly colored flats and hokum, animated all the while only by this same desire, never fulfilled: truly.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 484ec97 | you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out. He headed up into Woodberry | Michael Chabon | ||
| 5743d75 | an ancient woman, swarthy and whiskered and crooked like a finger. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 9055514 | The near death of a world-famous painter in a diving accident, in a Greenwich Village drawing room, contributed an unimpeachable Surrealist luster to the party. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8bf0b87 | bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed | Michael Chabon | ||
| e9b6efe | The fathers were standing around in their baseball caps, in a knot, smoking and talking. They looked over at Kohn's van, trying to identify it. Many of them would have known each other all their lives. On this field they would have tormented the chubby, the bespectacled goat of their generation. Their sons sat clumped along the bench like pigeons on the arm of a statue. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0057ffe | Kohn had played on an intramural team in college. He had been the second-worst player on a team that finished in ninth place out of twelve. Bengt looked a little surprised. "What position?" "Outfield." Kohn had a sudden craving for the broad skewed vista from far right, the distant buzz of chatter from the bench, the outfielder's blank bovine consciousness of grass and sky. If you backed up far enough out there on a hot summer day you cou.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 38766de | He and Dolores had been married thirty-one months before parting. There had been an extramarital kiss, entrepreneurial disaster, a miscarried baby, sexual malaise, and then very soon they had been forced to confront the failure of an expedition for which they had set out remarkably ill-equipped, like a couple of trans-Arctic travelers who through lack of preparation find themselves stranded and are forced to eat their dogs. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 89e6c5d | Wow,' said Eddie. Oriole had revealed the secret of her necklace to him many times in the past, in exactly these terms, following the script of the tour she conducted for visitors through a fragmentary scale model of her vanished life. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a3d3e76 | The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce something--one poor, dumb, powerful thing--exempt from the crushing strictures, from the ills, cruelties, and inevitable failures of the greater Creation. It was the voicing of a vain wish, when you got down to it, to escape. To slip, like the Escap.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| b1f013f | You know I have no patience with nonsense," said the Northeast's leading wholesaler of chattering windup mandibles." | Michael Chabon | ||
| f289fd4 | Over the years, a number of judges, among them the great Learned Hand, had attempted, tongues not always quite firmly in cheek, to sort out these fine and crucial distinctions. A legal definition of the term "superhero" had even been arrived at." | Michael Chabon | ||
| 1a84eb8 | The pajamas were patterned with red pinstripes and tiny blue escutcheons. Sammy was wearing a pair that had red escutcheons with blue pinstripes. That was Rosa's idea of fostering a sense of connection between father and son. As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective. "That's unusual," Sammy" | Michael Chabon | ||
| 2d5da46 | He ordered a slice of the house's excellent Sacher torte and a cup of coffee that was unusually drinkable for New York, and waited. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 5d53c06 | The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly .. | Michael Chabon | ||
| d68ca84 | It was just an old clock, your honor," he told Smith, looking at once relieved and disappointed. "In the desk of a Mister ... Clay. Taped to a couple of dowels painted red." "I knew it," said Joe softly, starting in on the second little box. "Dynamite isn't even red," the old fireman said, walking off. "Not really." "The guy reads too much comic books," Joe said." | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0ebf7f9 | She could not help it. She had a catastrophic imagination; an air of imminent doom darkens much of even her sunniest work. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 1fba120 | As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them." | Michael Chabon | ||
| c3e074e | Kun katson nyt Challengerin miehiston kuvaa, en nae seitsemaa hymyilijaa, kaunista Judy Resnickia enka oikeastaan edes pienoismallia sinansa. Naen vain piilotetut rakastavaiset, joiden kohtalot ovat kietoutuneet toisiinsa kuin heidan vartalonsa ja jotka odottavat kiihkeasti vapautuvansa painovoimasta, joka on aina pitanyt heidat maassa. | challenger painovoima pienoismallit rakastavaiset rakkaus | Michael Chabon | |
| 0231f3b | it was not a confidence in his own abilities that seemed to direct Tracy Bacon so much as an assuredness of being welcome wherever he went. He was golden and beautiful, | Michael Chabon | ||
| 314765e | One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 242397b | Yes, Mrs. Todd, a bonny, bouncing baby girl." Sylvie thought" | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c1d38af | To what extent you can, avoid bad deeds, even if everybody takes you as the agent of bad deeds. | Ali Zayn al-Abidin | ||
| 7ed56f0 | We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love. | Alice Cary | ||
| 2baf45f | How many lives we live in one,And how much less than one, in all. | Alice Cary | ||
| b109cdb | As far back as the son of Adam, worshipers knew "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Heb. 9:22 NIV). How Abel" | Max Lucado | ||
| 701ade4 | We don't need an "Over the Rainbow" god. We need the One who created rainbows!" | Max Lucado | ||
| 09dc9ba | Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia. It dulls our miracle memory. It makes us forget what Jesus has done and how good God is. | Max Lucado | ||
| 3db40a3 | farmhouses and shacks, the families settling | Colson Whitehead | ||
| f779ddb | The fruit of sin is thorns--spiny, prickly, cutting thorns. I emphasize the "point" of the thorns to suggest a point you may have never considered: if the fruit of sin is thorns, isn't the thorny crown on Christ's brow a picture of the fruit of our sin that pierced his heart?" | Max Lucado | ||
| 3e98439 | Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. --Max | Max Lucado | ||
| 5e4fb56 | We have been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don't have peace, we assume the problem lies within us. | Max Lucado |