Florida
Lauren Groff
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata. She buries her failure in this, as she buries all her failures, in reading.”
“My eyes were closed and I was almost asleep when I said, Tell me. You think there are still good people in the world? Oh ,yes, he said. Billions. It’s just that the bad ones make so much more noise.”
“She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option.”
“It's marvelous to know another person's entire literary canon by heart. It's like knowing their secret personal language.”
“Now a hunger that cannot quite be located in the body comes over her, a sense of yearning, for what? Maybe for kindness, for a moral sense that is clear and loud and greater that she is, something that can blanket her, no, no, something in which she can hide for a minute and be safe.”
“He’s like a perfect, windless pond, her husband once said. You throw something in just to watch it sink, and you’re going to see it on the bottom staring back at you for the rest of your life.”
“She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.”
“Time would not care if you fell out of it. It would continue on without you. It cannot see you; it has always been blind to the human and the things we do to stave it off, the taxonomies, the cleaning, the arranging, the ordering.”
“I read and savagely mourn, as if reading could somehow sate this hunger for grief, instead of what it does, which is fuel it.”
“Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself.”
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