SLAUGHTERHOUSE 90210

• 2013-05-20

  

  “She had a peculiar way with young men, Ursula noticed, both maternal and flirtatious at the same time (where once she had simply been flirtatious). It was rather disturbing to watch.”
  —Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

   

• 2013-05-17

  

  What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.”
  ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

   

• 2013-05-16

  

  “Dad’s Theory of Arrogance—that everyone always assumes they’re the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else’s Broadway Play.”

  ― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

   

• 2013-05-15

  

  “Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you.”
  —Charles Baxter, Believers

• 2013-05-14

  

  “Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.”
  ― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

• 2013-05-13

  

  “I can talk for a long time only when it’s about something boring.”
  ― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

• 2013-05-10

  

  “I suppose you could call it a retro diner, but what diner isn’t? They’re all designed to make you think fried food won’t kill you because it’s the 1950s and nobody knows any better, and besides, there’s a chance you haven’t been born yet.”
  —Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts

  
  

• 2013-05-09

  

  “The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that’s why you feel awful later—you’ve relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it’s not better, it’s worse—-the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.”

  — Philip Roth, American Pastoral

   

• 2013-05-08

  

  “The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperone, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.”
  ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  
  

• 2013-05-07

  

  “I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.” 
  ― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten