Rivera Sun · 417 pages
Rating: (25 votes)
“All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.”
“A freedom given up is not so easily regained.”
“The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.”
“Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.”
“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”
“The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.”
“As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.”
“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”
“Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.”
“No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.”
“I am happy, I tried to tell him with my eyes. I'm happy with Annie; she and my work are all I'll ever need; she's happy, too-we both were till this happened...”
“I hate you,” Andrew said casually. He took a last long drag from his cigarette and flicked it off the roof. “You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs.”
“I’m not a hallucination,” Neil said, nonplussed.
“You are a pipe dream,” Andrew said.”
“My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
“Come parole ripetute fino a quando diventano senza senso. Ripetete il vostro nome per più di duecento volte, e scoprirete che non siete nessuno.”
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