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Small World QUOTES

Small World QUOTES

1 " But always, since age three and a half, he [Malik Flowers] had known he wanted to ball, every minute of every day. Because hoops had it all: architecture, poetry, drama. Hoops was a dance, and a battle, and a story all at the same time. "

― Jonathan Evison , Small World

2 " ...the late Mr. Seymour himself has already served as a cautionary tale that happiness as a matter of course does not follow wealth. We cannot fulfill ourselves by worldly possessions. Wealth is but a tool that can be put to use for better or worse, but material wealth pales next to the bounty of human connection....Without connection this life is meaningless.

[Nora Bergen, Letter to brother Finn] "

― Jonathan Evison , Small World

3 " ...Walter [Bergen] reckoned that in a world that was forever changing, we were only as sure, and only as good, as our next step. "

― Jonathan Evison , Small World

4 " Honey, sometimes there's no real why in this world,' Cora said. 'There just ain't one, not one that makes any sense, and not one that's any comfort to a soul. Most of the time in this world it's just a bad case of the way things are. You gotta just absorb the world as best you can and look for the bright spots.'

[to Nora Bergen] "

― Jonathan Evison , Small World

5 " It was not a woman's destiny to be kept, nor to be traded according to a man's will. Where would men even be without women to forever serve their needs? Yet they apparently had no conception of their dependence upon the women they treated as their property. Without women, the world would fall to pieces in two days. For me were like children.

[Ai Lu's thoughts] "

― Jonathan Evison , Small World

6 " For the first time in all her years at Mr. Seymour's, Nora took a seat in the library, surveying her surroundings....What immediately captured Nora's imagination were the books lining the walls, hundreds of leather-bound editions of varying sizes and shapes. Nora was seized with the impulse to stand up and inspect each one of them, to circle the perimeter of the room and read their leather spines as she ran her fingers across them. What a fortune and blessing it would be to possess so many books, to live and love and prosper inside them, each one a small world in itself. "

― Jonathan Evison , Small World