School is over, and I am taking the time to read and digest.
Tripping across quotes that I want to hold on to but do not know where to save them.This seems like a good space.

from By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • “Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows” (39)
  • “The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters” (viii).
  • “You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen” (8)

from Herzog

  • “Each man has his own batch of poems” (69).
  • “It was the middle-class female solidarity, defending a nice girl from charges of calculation and viciousness. Nice girls marry for love. But should they fall out of love, they must be free to love another. No decent husband will oppose the heart. This is orthodox. Not utterly bad. But a new orthodoxy” (91).
  • “He wondered, even, why he should have wanted to survive. Others in his generation wore themselves out, died of strokes, of cancer, willed their own deaths, conceivably. But he, despite all blunders, fucky-knuckles that he was, he must be cunning, tough” (103).