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By Blood We Live
Glen Duncan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you’d understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.”
“The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of your own durability.”
“Full moon rises. You change. You need what you need, so you do what you do. The kill – like the show – must go on.”
“He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.”
“We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.”
“There are things you think you won’t be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you’re already doing them.”
“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.”
“He says: ‘Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?”
“The truth doesn’t care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can’t blame the truth.”
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werewolves, reading-habits, tv, thinkable, innocent, shakespeare, truth