"The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of the world picture of the West at the end of the 20th century."

-- Batya Gur

#Character Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.”
“When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.”
“Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.”
“Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.”

Source : Quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Elbert H. Gary (1925)
“Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.”
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
“Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.”
“John Toshack hates me.”

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