some good writing.
So sometimes when im reading a book I will stop and write down quotes that I really like, just so I can remember. And Im reading this book and I havent even finished it and i get super distracted from copying quotes out of it because it is extremely good writing. ANYWAY, so that is my quirky habit and the point of this entry is that Im a big fatty book nerd and that this is a really neat quote:
"We are unusual and tragic and alive. We are disadvantaged but young and virile. We walk the halls and the playground, and we are taller, we radiate. We are orphans. As orphans we are celebrities. We are foreign exchange people, from a place where there are still orphans. Russia? Romania? Somewhere raw and exotic.
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination."
-A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius