“Because it didn’t matter how many manuscripts you read, there was still a thrill when one of them turned all the lights on, even if only for a moment.” Reading Book:No Two Persons Source: No Two Persons
“You been here all night?” Leo asked. “Yep,” she said, although night was a foreign concept. It was midday in the book; the sun hot in the field where the boy was working. He was a teenager now, hormones pushing through him like corn toward the sky.” Reading Book:No Two Persons Source: No Two Persons
“Something was coming. Nola could feel it. She wanted to stop reading, but she couldn’t, because she could tell that this was the moment that would rip the boy’s life into a before and after. Fiction and reality. She knew the lesson that moment taught you – that everything you believed was yours, all the cinnamon toast and hugs and campfires, was just something you’d visited, not something you were guaranteed as a generic human being.” ReadingLessons Of Life Book:No Two Persons Source: No Two Persons
“But the boy in the book hadn’t had time to contemplate such philosophical thoughts. Not yet. He was still standing there, stained with tomatoes. In the moment, as they say. And Nola wouldn’t stop reading because she couldn’t leave him there alone.” Reading Book:No Two Persons Source: No Two Persons
“Kit left the rest of the unpacked boxes where they were and sat down in his big chair with the book. There were a hundred and twenty pages left. Anything could happen.” Reading Book:No Two Persons Source: No Two Persons
“Still, she kept listening, the voice of the actor and the voice of the book weaving together, becoming one. Sometimes the experience felt so dreamlike she almost fell asleep, but the words floated along with her until she came back and found them again.” ReadingAudiobook Book:No Two Persons Source: No Two Persons