The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
“There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.”
“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
“The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.”
“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.”
“Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.”
“And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private pursuit of status, the colour of wallpaper, the size of an office or the matter of a dedicated car parking space - was treated with the greatest significance, and everything that did matter - pleasure, joy, friendship, loved - was deemed somehow peripheral.”
“She was full of yearning. To leave, to be someone else, somewhere else, to start moving and never stop. And yet the more the innermost part of her screamed to move, the more she recognised that she was frozen to one place, one life.”
“No one makes love like they make a wall or a house. They catch it like a cold. It makes them miserable and then it passes, and pretending otherwise is the road to hell.”
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