Heaven and Hurricanes
Sean Norris
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What did it say about me that all of my favorite novels fell somewhere between a love letter and a suicide note?”
“Once you acknowledge that accusations of guilt are always shouted loudest by the guilty, then you quickly realize that indictments are just another form of confession — that the things we hate and condemn in this world reveal a hell of a lot more about us than the things we love and cherish.”
“Books are just like Rorschach tests. The patterns we find in a book’s ink reveal far more about us than they do about them. Our feelings, reviews, perceptions, and understandings of a book — as well as the meaning, value, and patterns we find within them — always say more about us than they do about the book.”
“Your career is not your epitaph.”
“Those without truth need stories. Stories that can reignite for them the romance between reason and reality. Stories that can help them perceive poetically what they are incapable or unwilling to see scientifically.”
“The truth is, I was never a nihilist at all. I just wore nihilism like a shield to protect my unrelenting tragic optimism.”
“The only freedom that exists lies in getting to choose how your freedom is lost.”
“Some boys grow up to be great men, some grow up to be great fathers, and while most grow up to be neither, none grow up to be both.”
“Reading that book is like looking at the final EKG results of a man who died a long, long time ago. Each word reads like the rapid peaks and falls of his arrhythmic imagination; each sentence steering him toward the stroke of genius that will eventually cause his mind to flatline.”
“My particular brand of anxiety often sought to corrupt the innocence of the everyday into the delinquency of my daydreams.”
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