Have you ever read a book that defies your ability to write a coherent review because ...it leaves you speechless? Yet at the same time with this overwhelming urge to tell everyone you've ever met to go read it right now, at this very minute? Have you read a book that made you laugh, and smile, and sigh, and then towards the end sob uncontrollably, with tears racing down your face and blurring your eyes...yet in a weirdly good painful comforting way that can't quite be described? And crying still five to ten minutes after the last page has been read? That twists and turns inside you and speaks weirdly to your soul? But somehow...you think, I can't tell anyone too much about this book, because it may spoil it? And you are weirdly worried that if people do go out and read it - they won't like it, they won't see what you saw...because your relationship with the book has become personal. The book has somehow worked its way into your heart and is now part of you?
Yes.
"The universe wants to be noticed."
"I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet."
"The world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
"All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children."
"We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."
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Yes.
"The universe wants to be noticed."
"I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet."
"The world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
"All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children."
"We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."
I'm so glad you love it too.