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"I am a whelk"
"I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of…
The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in light, And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So…
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
“From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking…
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
The ending thought: And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like…
At her feet, the snails go about their work: chewing, scavenging, sleeping. Their mouths, Etienne has taught her, contain something like thirty teeth per row, eighty rows of teeth, two and a half thousand teeth per snail, grazing,…
“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?” === “Did you know,” says Marie-Laure, “that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that.” “In one year or in…
...It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?” “You try.” === “Can deaf people hear their heartbeat, Frau Elena?” “Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?” === ...plants…
Seems the entire book has been quoted in goodreads, but may be exceptions: The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an…
“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
M_ALCOTT
" We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out…
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.
gibbous.
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”