Little failure Quotes

“There was a graduate student in my cohort, this guy I dated, who told me he came to realize that doing physics is like this: there's a concrete wall twenty feet thick, and you're on one side, and on the other side is everything worth knowing. And all you have is a spoon. So you just have to take a spoon and start scraping at the wall: no other way. He works in a bookstore now.But I think of it this way. There is a jigsaw puzzle. It's infinitely large, with no edges or corners to help you out. We have to put it together: it's our duty. We will never finish, but we have to find our satisfactions where we can: when we place two pieces together that suggest we may have found the place where the sky touches the sea, or when we discover a piece that is beautiful in and of itself, that has an unusual color or a glimpse of an unexpected pattern. And the pieces that do not join together also tell you something. If there are very few eureka moments, then at least there are a thousand little failures, that point the way toward a hundred little joys.”

“You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.”

“Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.”

“After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.”

“Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.”

“I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.”

“I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.”

“In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.”

“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.”