In The Lake Of The Words Qutoes
John and Kathy
-They pretended things were not so bad p.2
-It was a terrible time in their lives and they wanted desperately to be happy p.2
-she was aware of certain truths but could not bear to know what she knew, which was in the nature of their love. P.74
-they never talked anymore… never communicated, never made love. P.114
-all they needed was to be open with each other. Tell the truth. P.118
-they knew it was an accident of nature… that their lives were already far too complicated ,that they were not yet ready for the responsibilities and burdens… but they also understood the possibility of an ambiguous future. P. 161
-(their marriage) static and purposeless…with no reality beyond its own vague alliance with everything else. P.170
-After a time she felt a detached laziness come over her, a shutting down
sensation. P.171
-they were in debt up to their necks… there wasn’t a dime left in their bank account. P.299
-they needed the solitude. They needed to go away together. P.303
John and politics/ his election loss
-The thought formed as a picture in his head, an enormous white mountain he had been climbing all his life, and now he watched it come rushing down on him, all that disgrace. P.5
-Loser by landslide at forty-one p.5
-But it was more than a lost election. It was something physical. Humiliation.. then the rage…p.5
-“.. magicians and politicians are basically control freaks.” Tony Carbo P.28
-a winner,obviously, until he became a loser.. It was dishonour and disgrace. P.48
-it was something he’d worked for. He’d been a believer. Discipline and tenacity. P.48
-Politics was just a love thermometer. The polls quantified it, the elections made it official. P.55
-“defeat does things to people” Tony Carbo P.102
-He knew how to get along with people, how to twist arms without causing fractures. P.154
-the papers rated him as one of the hot young stars; there was talk about a future at higher levels. P. 155
-He worked on his posture,...
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