Theo of Golden

• Livro muito legal. Conexão afetiva com Portugal e EUA. Vale sim dar atenção às palavras, às nuances, para perceber os momentos em que se revelam conexões entre pessoas, e ter diferentes momentos e locais. Fechamento da história pós ápice é surpreendente e emocionante. Livro relativamente longo (quase 400 páginas) sem nenhum momento de monotonia. Uma história de inspiração, original, com muitos personagens que fazem a diferença na história. Theo é personagem marcante. Livro que espero que fique por muito tempo.

• Li 15 páginas. Readability 10. Estou empolgado!

• “In five years of marriage, he had learned her tones of voice and knew when she wanted his undivided attention. This was one of those moments.”

  p. 19

• “The sidewalk tables at the pubs and restaurants along Broadway were all occupied, and foot traffic was robust, made up predominantly of college students and other adherents to the idea that weekends begin on Thursday.”

  p. 27

• “willing to tell only the truth but not all the truth”

  p. 35

• “but he also knew, from years of undoing smart people's fiascos, that it never hurt to state the obvious.”

  p. 70

• “He pondered how a trunk could become so gnarled. It must have taken a great force to torque such a massive object. Or had some small force early in the tree's life dictated its course of growth? You can bend a twig, but not a tree.”

  p. 78

• “He tried to stifle it with the argument that, in her absence, goodness was no longer possible in the world. But then the appearance of additional co-conspirators, a little boy and girl on bicycles, laughing as they tried to outpace a playful dog, struck him with the inescapable recognition that life would and must go on, even if altogether new and subject to a grief that would be present with every step. Theo stopped to let the thought take firmer hold. He wanted it to prevail.”

  p. 100

• “Slowly, a calmness, absolute and irresistible, began to possess him with such presence that, in those moments, he knew his season of darkest grief was over.”

  p. 100

• “It’s hard enough to define what art is, much less ‘good art.’ I wonder if there is such a thing. Maybe there are just good responses.”

  p. 118

• “How is it, Theo wondered, that a piece of paper — a letter, a photo, a ticket stub, a sketch, a painting — is suddenly transformed by placing it in four bits of wood beneath a pane of glass? What does it mean that we place permanent boundaries around transient moments? What does it say of humankind that we take such trouble to freeze specific memories, that we devote such energy to capturing and preserving the “minute particulars” of our lives?”

  p. 123

• “Sometimes he and Lamisha take turns reading the lines. Theo obviously has an agenda in mind when they do so. He is helping a child improve her reading skills, but he is also teaching a course, as Basil might say, “in magic.” The magic of story. The wonder of words. The fertility of imagination.”

  p. 193

• “My daughter's gonna have a limp, but she's gonna be pretty much able to do everything like every- body else. We thought she might lose her leg, but the doctor fixed her. We’re blessed. You wanna see her?”

  p. 229

• ““Tom came up with it. He says there are five billion trees in the world. Don’t ask me who counted them. I don’t know but proba- bly somebody at National Geographic. Anyway, Tom says that under every single tree, there is some shade, like those trees over there.””

  p. 242

• ““Baby, they's justice and they's mercy. If you not sure what to do and you gotta choose one or the other, I say always go the mercy way. If you make a mistake, make it for mercy. Bad mercy don't hurt nearly like bad justice, and always remember, the Eye of God can see.””

  p. 255

• “Tony, my boy, remember. I, too, am a verbivore. A man who takes long walks by the river and reads books always has some-thing to think about.””

  p. 280

• “A man who loves all women loves no woman. A man who loves only one woman loves all women.”

  p. 280

• “In lieu of their attendance, a camera would be set up to live stream and re-cord the evening. This meant, of course, that any and all of his mistakes or imperfections would be permanently preserved, like an insect in amber.”

  p. 322

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