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Everybody's Son QUOTES

Everybody's Son QUOTES

1 " He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to be tempered with mercy. "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son

2 " no, a check, and pushing it at him. He took hold of "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son

3 " But now he knew the truth—there were no adults. There were just tall children stumbling around the world, walking pools of unfinished hopes, unmet needs, and seething desires. The unsuccessful ones ended up in asylums. The ones who learned to masquerade those needs became politicians. "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son

4 " Hope, thin as a thread, sharp as a fishing line, cut into David's heart." p. 79 "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son

5 " It was false, what everyone always said about tragedy. Tragedy wasn’t not having someone to love. Tragedy was loving someone and not being able to express it. "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son

6 " Suddenly, he wanted all of them, wanted to gather them up—David and Delores, Juanita and Carine and Katherine, Uncle Connor and Brad—and place them in an orchestra that would play the music of his life. He wanted to leave out none of it—not the trombone, not the cello, not the cymbals or the violin. Synthesis. He needed a fusing together of all the strands of his life: past and present, black and white, poor and rich. "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son

7 " So, in the end, I hoped that this novel would be judged by the same criteria that all novels should be judged by: Are the characters memorable? Is the story line credible? And does the novel help soften our hearts a little, does it induce in us feelings of compassion and empathy, does it make us understand something about human behavior in all its mysterious, even contradictory, glory? "

― Thrity Umrigar , Everybody's Son