Book nerd.
Yes, I've finally finished Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much it was mine to keep."
"He had been unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and always smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed."
"The main thing now was to find the steering wheel. At first, Billy windmilled his arms, hoping to find it by luck. When that didn't work, he became methodical, working in such a way that the wheel could not possibly escape him. He placed himself hard against the left-hand door, searched every square inch of the area before him. When he failed to find the wheel, he moved over six inches, and searched again. Amazingly, he was eventually hard agaisnt the right-hand door, without having found the wheel. He concluded that somebody had stolen it. This angered him as he passed out.
He was in the back seat of his car, which is why he couldn't find the steering wheel." -46
"Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." -80
"The women in the play were really men, of course. The clock had just struck midnight, and Cinderella was lamenting:
'Goodness me, the clock has struck-
Alackday, and fuck my luck.'" -90
"Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living." -93
"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all." -94
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones." -107
"Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is," said Lazarro, "it's revenge." -126
Other books (old):
My Antonia NEVER, EVER EVEN CONSIDER READING THIS BOOK. I had to read it for English, it's terrible.
Before he leaves her for 20 years, Jim tells Antonia:
"I'd like to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister -- anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me."
The Great Gatsby Not a bad read, but I would never have come across it had it not been an assigned book.
"And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." -quote from Daisy
There are plenty of quotes from this book, but I had this one saved as an away message .. cause I'm that cool.
"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much it was mine to keep."
"He had been unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and always smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed."
"The main thing now was to find the steering wheel. At first, Billy windmilled his arms, hoping to find it by luck. When that didn't work, he became methodical, working in such a way that the wheel could not possibly escape him. He placed himself hard against the left-hand door, searched every square inch of the area before him. When he failed to find the wheel, he moved over six inches, and searched again. Amazingly, he was eventually hard agaisnt the right-hand door, without having found the wheel. He concluded that somebody had stolen it. This angered him as he passed out.
He was in the back seat of his car, which is why he couldn't find the steering wheel." -46
"Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." -80
"The women in the play were really men, of course. The clock had just struck midnight, and Cinderella was lamenting:
'Goodness me, the clock has struck-
Alackday, and fuck my luck.'" -90
"Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living." -93
"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all." -94
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones." -107
"Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is," said Lazarro, "it's revenge." -126
Other books (old):
My Antonia NEVER, EVER EVEN CONSIDER READING THIS BOOK. I had to read it for English, it's terrible.
Before he leaves her for 20 years, Jim tells Antonia:
"I'd like to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister -- anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me."
The Great Gatsby Not a bad read, but I would never have come across it had it not been an assigned book.
"And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." -quote from Daisy
There are plenty of quotes from this book, but I had this one saved as an away message .. cause I'm that cool.