'60 days' meme: day 5
I'm really, really behind at the moment, so I apologise profusely if I haven't got around to answering a comment or if I've totally failed to read a really important post, or anything like that. This week has been kind of crazy, and let's face it, I'm not all that reliable even at the best of times. But I am at least starting up with the 60 days meme again. So today is day 5, my favourite quote. I think, of all the many great contenders, it would have to be "...in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart," from Anne Frank. This is the epigraph of Galápagos, the Vonnegut novel, and is also Leon Trout's favourite quotation, and his mother's too (i.e. the son and wife of Kilgore Trout, respectively). Not only do I agree with the sentiment, or at least try to, I also think that the fact it was said by Anne Frank gives it so much added poignancy. I try to steer away from mythologising people just because they suffered, and when I went to Amsterdam I didn't bother with the Anne Frank house, but in the case of this quotation the circumstances of her life do move me.