I've A Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore (1996) - Plot & Excerpts
I fell in love with the written words in this book, and then the characters, and finally the city. I'll never think of, or look at, NYC or it's inhabitants in quite the same way again. The ideas expressed by the narrator, snuck up on me and at the time, seemed so profound... '... we are in these fantasies as surely as we are in our biographies.''Little Kiwi was watching Peter and Jeff like Emily Dickinson viewing the dismembering of a butterfly.''Worst of all were those who could claim a true holiday but wouldn't join their families. To me, this was like practicing to be an orphan.''Christmas is the one time of the year when you look about and feel your blood.''if you can't have Christmas with your family, then you have an adventure.''You believe in the Christmas you were raised on...''My parents are too attached to their children to let the luck of the draw cause trouble among us.''The unique charm of the Imaginary Lover is that he can never lose his appeal as real humans do invariably, eventually, for he is a fantasy - plausible but a dream.''Speakers grow up learning to develop or hide their emotions; Mac had learned only to display his.''I wish I could choose between beauty and love; I wish life were so trim; I, too, like a pretty picture. But I think the meaning matters more.'Sometimes it was simply the phrasing that caused me to pause, reread, and savor the combination of words, allowing for visualization to seep through;'Christmas is not about love. Christmas is about being with people who are so used to you they take everything you do for granted.' (Dennis)'Loyalty needs lying. Do you want me to be honest or loyal? it's one or the other.' (Peter)'I'm loyal, clever, and cute. I'll never let you down. Never, I promise. Isn't that enough?' (Peter)'Nothing is enough. That's what love is. The more you have the more you need.' (Jeff)'I don't love you anymore.' (Peter) 'That's when you love me the most... When you feel it hurting.' (Jeff)'The room was so quiet we could hear the appliances depreciating.'There is something for everyone in this book. Read, savor, enjoy and remember.
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