Waltzing the Cat
Pam Houston
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.”
“Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor." "Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.”
“The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.”
“If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.”
“Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture and a man will walk into it. If you can bear him even a little, then for a while let him stay.”
“Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you’re walking out of the theater you can’t remember anything at all about your own life.”
“People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.”
“You got some synchronicity happening in your life right now?”
“Intuition is nothing more than the most likely junction of the thing called will and the thing called chance.”
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Book Keywords:
humor, change, autumn, commitment, fall, fear, malapropism, equinox, life, water, self-invention, writing, inertia, growth, metaphor, art
