A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
I have no reason to update this anymore. Buuuuut its time to quote..
It’s a bad habit, talking to the dead. -10
The soldier in you prefers “the dead”; it’s less formal, more physical, and that’s the fact of death-it’s the body that stops, nothing else. -59
What is it like, to go from one world to another like that? -62
And so you roll over and whisper another prayer into your pillow. Not because you're too proud to admit you're wrong. Not because you're afraid. Because you can't change who you are. -120
You think if you can somehow reverse the process, make everybody better again. -137
Two weeks ago you loved the heat, the lull of summer. It’s astonishing how quickly things fall apart. -179
Is it true, after all you’ve preached, that you’d rather live a sinner than surrender to Him and be forgiven? -187
It's a really good book, so I thought. Ask anyone else in my Contemp Lit class though.. you might, probably not, get such approval. Its a quick read I think, its amazing I think. I missed some great quotes because you need to really read the book to understand what makes them so great annnnnd I missed some others cause I was too busy actually reading instead of analyzing every line.
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It’s a bad habit, talking to the dead. -10
The soldier in you prefers “the dead”; it’s less formal, more physical, and that’s the fact of death-it’s the body that stops, nothing else. -59
What is it like, to go from one world to another like that? -62
And so you roll over and whisper another prayer into your pillow. Not because you're too proud to admit you're wrong. Not because you're afraid. Because you can't change who you are. -120
You think if you can somehow reverse the process, make everybody better again. -137
Two weeks ago you loved the heat, the lull of summer. It’s astonishing how quickly things fall apart. -179
Is it true, after all you’ve preached, that you’d rather live a sinner than surrender to Him and be forgiven? -187
It's a really good book, so I thought. Ask anyone else in my Contemp Lit class though.. you might, probably not, get such approval. Its a quick read I think, its amazing I think. I missed some great quotes because you need to really read the book to understand what makes them so great annnnnd I missed some others cause I was too busy actually reading instead of analyzing every line.
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