Inland
Téa Obreht
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The longer I live, Burke, the more I have come to understand that extraordinary people are eroded by their worries while the useless are carried ever forward by their delusions.”
“The longer I live, Burke, the more I have come to understand that extraordinary people are eroded by their worries while the useless are carried ever forward by their delusions”
“Life's happiness is always a famine, and what little we find interests nobody. What use is it, the happiness of some stranger? At worst, it drives onlookers to envy; at best, it bores them.”
“But ain’t that how we learn to be ourselves? Failing to impress them that matter most to us?”
“...the older she grew the more she came to recognize falsehood as the preservative that allowed the world to maintain its shape.”
“Time doesn’t change, Nor do times. Only things inside time change, Things you will believe, and things you won’t. —JAMES GALVIN, “Belief”
“Might the dead truly inhabit the world alongside the living: laughing, thriving, growing, and occupying themselves with the myriad mundanities of afterlife, invisible merely because the mechanism of seeing them had yet to be invented?”
“this must be the crux of life: everybody blundering around in the full glare of ruination.”
“Two breads, left to rise overnight, had burst out of their pans like dancehall girls leaning over the rail. The sight of them sent a bolt of panic through Nora. She had mixed them last night in the grip of optimism, still listening for Emmett's wheels on the drive -- still counting on all the things water would allow, a long drink and laundry, perhaps even a bath -- and now here they sat: two bloated mistakes that had brought the entire household not one, but two, cups closer to the bottom of the bucket.”
“There are wounds of time and there are wounds of person, Misafir. Sometimes people come through their wounds, but time does not. Sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes the wounds are so grievous, there's no coming through them at all.”
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Book Keywords:
hurt, injury, time, wounds
