Ghosts of Harvard
Francesca Serritella
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You’ll find that most people here are more adept at appearing intelligent than actually being so. They’re mostly dolts.”
“It takes only an error to father a sin.”
“snapshots to remember in our mental scrapbooks and throw away the bad? Perhaps all photo albums should bear the subtitle “The Past—The Way You Want to Remember It.”
“but Harvard was more than a school. It was validation. It was history. It was expectation.”
“They say fate is written in the stars, but the irony is that stars don't project the future, they reflect the past. If you think about it, every time you look at a star, you're looking back in time. The North Star is four hundred thirty light-years away, so when you see it shining, the light hitting your eyes is already four hundred thirty years old.”
“I haven't thought past my father. He died a few days shy of his thirtieth birthday. When I picture my future, I can imagine my Naval career, starting a family, but I can't picture myself as a geezer, or really any older than he got to be. It's like he's the horizon line in my head, I'm always moving toward it, but I can't imagine getting to the other side.”
“Cady had learned that the family of a suicide victim doesn’t get straight sympathy.”
“You can see more in total darkness than you ever could in light.”
“When you love someone, time isn’t such a big obstacle.”
“Tragedy taints a person, and no one wants to touch that sadness, just in case it spreads.”
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