The Dutch House

“You are my sister, my only relation. Do not put your face in the fucking fire.”

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“I don't keep up the way I should. That's the real drag about graduating. There's never as much time to read when there's no one there to make you do it.”

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“You don't have to like your work to be good at it.”

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“Chemistry is a beautiful system,” Dr. Able said. “Every block builds on the previous block. If you don’t understand chapter 1, there’s no point in going on to chapter 2. Chapter 1 provides the keys to chapter 2, and chapters 1 and 2 together provide the keys to chapter 3. We’re on chapter 4 now. It isn’t possible to suddenly start working hard on chapter 4 and catch up to the rest of the class. You have no keys.”

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“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”

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“There would never been an end to all the things I wished I'd asked my father. After so many years I thought less about his unwillingness to disclose and more about how stupid I'd been not to try harder.”

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“Girls and their dates still got dressed to go to the Apollo for amateur night but by 1968 pretty much every representation of hope in the country had been put up against a wall and shot.”

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“Pero es imposible no proyectar el presente sobre el pasado. Miramos atrás a través de la lente de lo que conocemos hoy, así que no lo vemos como las personas que éramos entonces, sino como las que somos ahora. Eso supone una alteración radical del pasado como tal.”

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“Nije ona svetica. Brinuti se na nekoga tko te ne poznaje ne čini te svecem. (....) Ali kad razmišljaš o svecima, sumnjam da je i jedan od njih usrećio vlastitu obitelj. (...) A svece i svetice njihove obitelji općenito mrze.”

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“The point, I wanted to say, was that we shouldn’t still be driving to the Dutch House, and the more we kept up with our hate, the more we were forever doomed to live out our lives in a parked car on VanHoebeek Street.”

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