From Reunion by Alan Lightman

Well, I've discovered another use for blogs: a way to record (from anywhere with an Internet connection) interesting sayings and phrases from books I'm reading. Sure beats scrap paper or the PDA.

This post will grow as I progress toward the end of the book.

p. 12
She hesitates. "Maybe I can reschedule the appointment." She looks at me symapthetically from across the room. But she has hesitated a few seconds too long, and I can tell that she doesn't want to go.
"No," I say, "don't reschedule your appointment. It's all right." Why can't people be honest with each other? I am not being honest either.

p. 26
Isn't it true we kiss with our minds but we lick with our bodies?

p. 39
Momentous choices constantly bombard us, but we are usually unaware of them at the time.

p. 42
Her eyes are the color of sky. She is studying medicine she says, and she plays the flute. He tells her about his family, his new shoe store, his dream to own twenty-seven stores. What makes a good shoe? she asks him. She has no interest in shoes, but she doesn't know what else to say...

p. 62
... a tall, thin young man with bloodshot eyes, dressed like an unmade bed.

p. 75
God, I was powerful. I was a giant. With an endless future ahead of me, a continent of fresh snow.

p. 147
Because every possible word is said and not said, every possible thought is thought and not thought, and what is not said is still there, like the shape of space around the edge of a leaf.

p. 168
He waits for her on the street below ..., sits on a rough concrete step and sweeps aside the cigarette butts and greasy food wrappers. Dirt and cold mean nothing. His insides are on fire. Every second something new is destroyed.

p 179
We're animals. All the proper rules of behavior, the ideals, the values, the respect, the self-respect—all of it dissolves into nothing with beautiful young women.

-Finis-