=( because I didnt finish the book in time I actually just finished. I feel like I made myself read this book most of the time instead of just wanting to read it. Until closer to the end then I did want to finish it. Im not going to lie though I was disappointed in the end. Its a pretty good book I would never read it again or really recommend it to anyone to be honest. I have captions from the book though that Ill share.
It was a strange book, about Portland and the USA curing Love. Love is a disease that they are preforming basically a lobotomy(they dont use that word, but thats what it is)to stop people from loving because it causes all the problems, crime, disease in the world. So you get the procedure done at 18 and get matched with a partner to spend their lives with but they are basic robots in life after its done but they say they are happier because there is no pain.
So here is the captions:
-The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well. -Proverb 42, The Book of Shhh (thats like their bible/rule book)
-Instead people back then named other diseases--stress, heart disease, anxiety, depression, hypertension, insomnia, bipolar disorder--never realizing that these were, in fact, only symptoms that in the majority of cases could be traced back to the effects of amor deliria nervosa
-We must be constantly on guard against the Disease; the health of our nation, our people, our families, and our minds depends on constant vigilance. -"Basic Health Measures" The Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook, 12th edition
-Lord, help us root our feet to the earth And always remember the fallen angels Who, attempting to soar, Were seared instead by the sun and, wings melting, Came crashing back to the sea. Lord, help root my ees to the earth And stay my eyes to the road So I may never stumble.-Psalm 24(From "Prayer and Study," The Book of Shhh)
-The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. he carried with him the disease-amor deliria nervosa-in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood.-From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University.
-You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes. A limited choice. We get to choose from the people who have been chosen for us.
-Step on a crack, youll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, youll bring out all the dead. -A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.
-Mama, Mama, help me get home, Im out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt, It showed me it's teeth and went straight for my gut.
Mama, Mama, help me get home, Im out in the woods, I am out on my own. I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck, It showed me it's teeth, and went straight for my neck.
Mama, Mama, put me to bed, I wont make it home, I'm already half dead. I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. -From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales, edited by Cory Levinson
-Of all the systems of the body-Neurological, cognitive, special, sensory-the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart. -The Role and Purpose of Society," The Book of Shh p.353
-One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little carved-out sphere-is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.
-Liberty in acceptance; Peace in enclosure; Happiness in reunciation.-Words carved above the gates at teh entrance to the Crypts.
-This is what people are always talking about when they talk about God: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. Feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get.
-Without love, there could also be no hate: without hate, no violence. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing. Indifference is.
-That's part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
-But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.
So there are just some of it. For such a strange book there were a lot of things about it that interested me. It reminded me a little bit like The Host very science fiction so its different the books I normally read so Im glad I read it.
On to the next which is book 10 or 11 (I dont remember really) of the Sookie Stackhouse books (true blood series) I wont blog about that because Im so far into the series and I never blogged about any of these books and I dont want to jump into blogging about them now.
