A Line I Like

You don’t know how scared you’ll feel, how many compromises you’re prepared to make, you don’t know that just about anything which looks OK on the outside can be made to feel OK on the inside.

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—	Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium, Nick Hornby I expected these stories to be more quotable, but I guess they weren’t!

‘Life can be bitter and difficult, so carry a little sweet in your pocket,’ he says

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—	Edenborn, Nick Sagan This quote is clearly not representative of the book at all, but I might start carrying candy just so I can say this when I’m an old lady. Or now.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

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—	Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Lisa Sanders A book based on the column that House is based on.

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me, in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of classic melancholia.

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—	Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane I didn’t really enjoy the writing in the book, but I did like this image.

The variable that best explained these gaps was how often a mom rapidly responded to her child’s vocalizations and explorations.

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—	NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, Po Bronson Man, don’t start a tumblr like this and then read a bunch of less-than-quotable non-fiction.

Turns out the Mighty Oz is just a group of guys, and sometimes watching grown men bicker about who’s got the missing eyeliner sort of crushes the vibe.

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—	Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Mental Illness, Mary Weiland Haha, STP is full of whiners.

Since she didn’t close her book - she only marked the page with her finger - I knew I didn’t have much time.

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—	Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan This is so going to be me as a mother.

It is impossible to calculate the exact number of forgeries circulating at any given time, but the guardians of high art have estimated that anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the works on the market are either fakes or genuinely old works that have been doctored to fit a more valuable style or artist.

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—	Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, Laney Salisbury Ok, it’s dry, but I found it interesting.

Amanda and I painted the kitchen floor red and spattered it with yellow and gray paint while she explained to me who Jackson Pollock was.

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—	The Kids Are All Right, Diana and Elizabeth Welch (with Amanda and Mark Welch) I liked this little snapshot of family life.

Each of his sons had been his favorite child.

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—	Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout