The Whale: A Love Story
Mark Beauregard
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Asking the question matters more than finding the answer.”
“This fever of longing is not love, he thought, it is the opposite of love. It is the separation from love that burns like the fires of hell.”
“He seemed not to need mere physical sustenance anymore, surviving instead on a spiritual alchemy of memory and desire.”
“There is mystery in everything,” Herman whispered, almost to himself. “And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry.”
“The idea of God as an immense tortoise – deliberate, reptilian, silent, and hard shelled – cheered him.”
“Original sin is a very commercial idea,” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?”
“One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full.”
“Must we submit eternally to male tyranny?”
“Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.”
“Maria said, “Penmanship is no laughing matter, Miss Field.”
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