This book is killing me. It‘s so good.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people‘s lives.

An overwhelming desire to help, or to be admired, came over him.

"I'm odd, I know," he said. "It's fear of myself that's made me odd."

I think the NYtimes calling it "prophetic" was a bit much, but def a worthwhile read!

In Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: 'I know just what you mean.'

"Something smelled delicious."
Oh my god

"His emotions tend to emerge in terms of velocity."
PREACH

I'm at the part where I hate the main character (but I do dig the book)

Stunning

She was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.

Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like a cross.

I like it when people lie! Lying is man's only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie-you get to the truth! Lying is what makes a man. (...) lying in one's own way is almost better than telling the truth; in the first case you're a man, and in the second-no better than a bird!

I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.

"By the way, I swear to you that I'm judging her only mentally, by metaphysics alone."

"Of course she doesn't deserve to be alive," the officer remarked, "but that's nature."
(hahahahahha)

"A hundred, a thousand good deeds that could be arranged and set going by the money that old woman has doomed to the monastery!"
- on charity

"I drink, for I wish doubly to suffer!"

Diggin' this translation - rereading for the first time since I flipped through the night before an English test