Cabel Quotes

“In the cool dark basement, she whispers, "It's not Ralph, is it?"Cabel's quiet for a moment, as if he's thinking, "You mean like Forever Ralph? Uh, no.""You've read Forever?" Janie is incredulous. "There wasn't much else to chose from on the hospital library cart, and Deenie was always checked out," Cable says sarcastically. "Did you like it?"Cabel laughs softly, "Um...well, it wasn't the wisest thing to read for a fourteen-year-old guy with fresh skin grafts in the general area down there, if you know what I mean.”

“In the cool dark basement, she whispers, "It's not Ralph, is it?"Cabel's quiet for a moment, as if he's thinking, "You mean like Forever Ralph? Uh, no.""You've read Forever?" Janie is incredulous. "There wasn't much else to chose from on the hospital library cart, and Deenie was always checked out," Cable says sarcastically. "Did you like it?"Cabel laughs softly, "Um...well, it wasn't the wisest thing to read for a fourteen-year-old guy with fresh skin grafts in the general area down there, if you know what I mean.”

“Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.”

“Patriotism is the religion of hell.”

“There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

“The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong”

“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”

“alcohol played the midwife”

“Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic”

“...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.”