First day back at work. Sorting stuff. In the beginning of the holidays, I went to London, and brought back a number of novels that I came across. They have kept me company during long lazy wonderful days of reading...As part of the sorting process, here goes some of the quotes, that I marked for remembrance, not necessarily because they say very much about the book, but often because of their poignant wit or beauty.

"His short, stiff hair was thinning at the crown, and an ageing bachelor smell clung to him - like newspaper that had been stored in a drawer with cough drops. She had a bachelor uncle who smelled like that" (Haruki Murakami, short story "Birthday Girl")

"And then a thought came into my brain that wasn't like the other thoughts. It was closer to me, and louder. I didn't know where it came from, or what it meant, or if I loved it or hated it. It opened up like a fist, or a flower." (Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. This book is really a moblog!)

"'There are two things, you can't tell about a new man', Eva was saying. 'How drunk he is, and when he is about to come. Wouldn't you say, Crispin?'" (Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love)

"But as the golden days cooled and shortened, such tasks as might work my body and mind into a peaceful exhaustion grew fewer..." (Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love - the 18th century character of the book writes exquisite English)

"I felt irritated and claustrophobic, as though I had inadvertently been corralled into a club or competition in which everyone imbibed identical cultural information for a surprise exam." (Joanna Briscoe, Sleep with me)

"It was Theo who found me my current job at FeetUpTV!, the world's worst cable channel. He has a degree in Comparative Religion, and he's a published poet. I suspect that he plays his football for Allboys United, if you get my drift, althought that's neither here nor there. He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale." (Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down)
# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:26