Are there any quotes in the book that resonated with you?

Are there any quotes in the book that resonated with you?

Oh my. I have so many highlights throughout the book, you can barely read some pages. Here are a few of my favorites:

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. But people -- oh my word -- people! People could be the heaven that the Earth is trying to speak to." (page 454)

"The psyche's job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we'll behave in any situation. We're all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement." (page 231)

"She takes his shaking hand in the dark. It feels good, like a root must feel, when it finds, after centuries, another root to pleach to underground. There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things." (page 144)

I'm glad I'm not the only one to pick out quotes throughout a book. :)

As a historian and an artist, this quote really did it for me because I think it's pretty much true:

"At school in Chicago, he learned many things:
1. Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.
2. Art was nothing he thought it was.
3. People would make just about anything you can think to make. Intricate scrimshawed portraits on the tips of pencil leads. Polyurethane-coated dog shit. Earthworks that could pass for small nations.
4. Makes you think different about things, don't it?" (pg. 20)

I added forty quotes to my Goodreads' page, so choosing one is extremely difficult! I suppose that Ma Shouying's words to his son were particularly sobering. "You can't come back to something that is gone." (pg. 28)

As a parent of and friend to artists with degrees, however, Nick's defense preparation, "Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable," (pg. 20) made me smile!

Ha - love the Nick quote, too, Andrea!

I found the old palindrome interesting: La ruta nos aporto otro paso natural. Had to Google it.

And for me, and anyone else who is language-challenged, here is the translation I found :)
The path gives the natural next step

(Page 293)
One quote that stuck with me was the part when after reading all the books that the previous sitters left in the hammock lending library, Maidenhair asked Watchman if he loved the people in the books. He responded by saying maybe, but they were all imprisoned. He said he just wanted to shake them and yell, "Get out of yourselves, damn it! Look around!"
Haven't we all felt that way one time or another?

Over the years, I have kept a small three ring binder filled with quotes from the various books I have read. I have the following from THE OVERSTORY:
Dennis tells Patricia that the loggers say"Lets go let a little light in that swamp." Forests panic people. Too much going on there. Humans need sky.

Ray says to Dorothy:"I do not think it too remote that we may come to regard the Earth, as some have suggested, as one organism, of which mankind is a functional part--the mind, perhaps."

The guiding principle of Neelay's young life:"Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be."