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121 " A wife sets the ambience of a man’s life. "
― Marisha Pessl , Night Film
122 " Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I'd kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, down pours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone. "
123 " They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang. "
124 " With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you. "
125 " Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours. "
126 " Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn’t me. "
127 " Moe was a triple threat.”“He could sing, dance, and act?”She shook her head. “He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag. "
128 " Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music. It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul. Take a modern example. Florence and the Machine? In the song 'Cosmic Love,' she catalogs the way in which the world has gone dark, distorting her, when she, a rather intense young woman, was left bereft by a love affair. 'The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. "
129 " The notes weren't played," he went on, "They were poured from a Grecian urn. "
130 " I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around. "
131 " I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around. "
132 " Everyone smiles for a photograph. "
133 " WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARDSThis is the Cordovites' premier wormhole, where time ticks backward, trees grow down, light eats itself, fear is an opening, and life is Sovereign, Deadly, Perfect. "
134 " Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. "
135 " It's not fair.""It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning. "
136 " No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.”“What’s that?”“Never look in da rearview mirror.”“Never?" We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.“It’s not healthy to keep a’ watchin’ what you leavin’ behind. "
137 " But it could also be an enslavement, a hell, to keep searching for the enchanted, keep plunging down, down to the lonely chambers of the sea. To seek mermaids.It was a tragic thing to do, like looking for Eden. "
138 " We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop. "
139 " There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. "
140 " Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can’t they? "