"Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer."

-- Michael Cunningham

#Moving Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.”
“I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma”
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.”
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”

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