The Humanity Project
Jean Thompson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?”
“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers and thuggish music. Of our neighbors, who were buying gold and ammunition and great quantities of freeze-dried food, and who were organizing themselves into angry tribes recognizable to one another by bumper stickers.”
“The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you’d signed up for a credit card without knowing it.”
“Nobody knows what to do when there’s a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.”
“What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.”
“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.”
“She didn’t look like Louise. She didn’t look much like anybody except herself.”
“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while something clicked.”
“He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no.”
“He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, change, reality, self, success, destiny, youth, time, soul, heart, novel, memory, life, learning, identity
