Kaitlin
“The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.” –218
I was suppose to read this my junior year of high school for a project. I didn't read it. I got an F on the project. I figured 7 years or so later it was time to get it read.
The whole scene where Pyncheon bites it, all I could think of is how Hawthorne is like a cat playing with its food before it gobbles it up.
Absolutely love all the different ways to tell a story Riggs is mixing. The first book in a while to make me excited about reading. I went out and bought the next one right after I finished this one.
That moment when you read a book and think, “no wonder its been around for thousands of years.”
Fair play, Plato.
As usual, Christopher Moore got me to giggle and learn about things at the same time.
The most willing I've ever been to learn about art.
“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers and horses... All staked their claim on her, each conspiring to weigh down her soul... Every day brought unwanted connections, losses, and complications that broke her heart.”