• Author: Daniel Nayeri
  • Full Title: Everything Sad Is Untrue
  • Tags: #Inbox #books

Highlights

  • The first thing I read are comics about Calvin and Hobbes. He is a boy who seems to hate the world as it is and love the world that ought to be. (Location 662)
  • His heart had festered with murder and jealousy—so little by little he boiled away all the loving parts. (Location 1392)
  • Memories are tricky things. They can fade or fester. You have to seal them up tight like pickles and keep out impurities like how hurt you feel when you open them. Or they’ll ferment and poison your brain. (Location 1534)
  • Grownies will talk sometimes in boring words about boring ideas to groom each other like apes, to let each other know they’re pals. (Location 1905)
  • A god who listens is love. A god who speaks is law. At their worst, the people who want a god who listens are self-centered. They just want to live in the land of do-as-you-please. And the ones who want a god who speaks are cruel. They just want laws and justice to crush everything. I don’t have an answer for you. This is the kind of thing you live your whole life thinking about probably. Love is empty without justice. Justice is cruel without love. (Location 3519)
  • The classroom was a cement cube. But it had streamers and wavy cardboard on the walls, and posters about kindness that really mean calmness. (Location 5167)
  • The way of saying, “In your glory I turn to elemental dust, and hope only that it does not make you sneeze.” (Location 5334)
  • This was my life, as I experienced it, and it is both fiction and nonfiction at the same time. Your memories are too, if you’ll admit it. But you’re not a liar. You’re just Persian in your own way, with a flaw. (Location 5652)