The Electric Kingdom
David Arnold
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How to be human, it seemed, was an infinite ocean in which Kit had only yet dipped the corner of a toenail.”
“We sit there, just being together, not speaking or even looking at each other, and it feels quietly tectonic, the kind of moment that might move a mountain if it were let outside.”
“But listening was about more than hearing; it was about when and where you put yourself in the story.”
“It occurred to her that this was true friendship: a person in your life who was willing to walk through strange doors into dark places, so long as they could walk there with you.”
“He'd done more than give her a story - he'd given her life inside the story.”
“Even in a world where Fly exterminates Human, this has not changed: that one person might find beauty in another.”
“Strange, how a person could create something they didn’t understand. But maybe that was what made art great: Who cares where it comes from, so long as it comes from you?”
“Sometimes it’s nice to feel small, to know you are far from the first.”
“Sometimes Kit would look at the veins in his own hands and think, All these little rivers flowing through my body, keeping me alive. Thank you, little rivers. Thank you.”
“Morning people, as Kit understood them, belonged to a breed of humans who derived unending joy from the horrors of emerging from one's bed. . . . The only thing "morning people" enjoyed more than morning was telling everyone else about it. It was a badge of honor, apparently, to be a "morning person.”
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Book Keywords:
friendship, love, art, thankfulness, metaphor, body-positivity, life, listening, stories
