Moonglow
Michael Chabon
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“That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather’s view: to render memory unnecessary.”
“She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.”
“The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.”
“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.”
“I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take advantage of the time you have. That's what they tell you to do. But when you're old, you look back and you see all you did, with all that time, is waste it. All you have is a story of things you never started or couldn't finish. Things you fought with all your heart to build that didn't last or fought with all your heart to get rid of and they're all still around. I'm ashamed of myself.”
“Was it even possible to forgive the dead? Was forgiveness an emotion, or a transaction that required a partner? I had made a promise to someone who would never see it kept. I wanted to respect my grandfather's wish, and it would have been no trouble to evade my mother's question. Keeping secrets was the family business. But it was a business, it seemed to me, that none of us had ever profited from.”
“The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place.”
“luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They’d”
“She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work.”
“She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack. When”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, earth, space, wwi, love, youth, rocket, human-nature, life-lessons, war, aging, shame
