Reading Notes: The Möbius Book

Catherine Lacey

"Hope is visible in the objects of our homes. Identities and plans rest dormant in a stack of books. The kitchen pantry reassures us our future nourishment. A toolbox is the confidence we can fix what will break. Little notes to self. Little notes of self. The secret language of things we use to fold life into time, time into life."

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"Without God, what was a body? Just a place to wait."

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"Fiction is a record of what has never happened and yet absolutely happened, and those of us who read it regularly have been changed and challenged and broken down a thousand times over by those nothings, changed by people who ever existing doing things that no no one quite did, changed by characters that don't entirely exist and the feelings and thoughts that never exactly passed through them."

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"I'm not sure if someone who chooses to suffer or is attached to his pain can ever be soothed away from it, and maybe any effort to comfort such a person is actually an effort to change them and therefore not a comfort at all, but rather a bid to shape them into the person you want them to be."