Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies:
“It is a shame, such a shame, Harry thought,that to be a human is to be one thing, to becontained, to have these walls of skin and a singular sense of self that sloshes and slaps around inside of us like water on the inside of a well.”
“The only thing worse than death is knowledge of it coming”
“the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue.”
“For we inherit the haunts of our mothers;we are left with the guests they let in.”
“It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.”
“Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation.”
“Ölüm bir yaşamı kaybetmek, ama seslenecek birini bulmaktır aynı zamanda.”
“But lovers are notoriously reckless with each other's insides. Even if it seems on skin-surface that all is well. That love is gentle.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
