“Yanagihara's most impressive trick is the way she glides from scenes filled with those terrifying hyenas to moments of epiphany. 'Wasn't it a miracle to have survived the unsurvivable? Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn't this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?' A Little Life devotes itself to answering those questions, and is, in its own dark way, a miracle.” WorldWayLittlesPersonsMadeMomentsSeemsHouseDarkComfortSceneFindingsLonelyMiracleFilledTricksThis LifeSurvivedImpressiveEpiphanyHyenasLonely World Author:Marion Winik
“Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory.... The self-described atheist has become a deity... but the inquiry's findings may cause the Armstrong faithful to ask, Was the miracle a mirage?” MaySelfEyeAsksCausesVictoryFindingsMiracleAtheistFocusedFaithfulInquiryDeitiesArmstrongHelpersMiragesCocoonsGimlets Author:Selena Roberts
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.” IfsThinkingWayMaySometimesSeemsPastMemoriesForgetWonderfulFindingsWeakMiracleInequalityFacultyObedientBewilderedMansfield ParkPast MemoriesBeyond Control Book:Mansfield Park Source: Mansfield Park