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The Overstory: A Novel
In place of explanation, memory.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago
“We have to learn to love this place. We need to become natives.”
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
All that’s left to sell up here is nostalgia, those recent yesterdays when tomorrow seemed the answer to everything a human might ever want.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
all she ever wanted in this life was to find her freedom. But back in the prison doorway, waving the book in triumph, she knows. This is her freedom. This one. The freedom to be equal to the terrors of the day.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
silvery as inverted icicles. She has never inhaled such fecund
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Timour Kosters added 8mo ago
The Ape Inside Us, by Rubin M. Rabinowski.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago
“You’re studying what makes some people take the living world seriously when the only real thing for everyone else is other people. You should be studying everyone who thinks that only people matter.”
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago