SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS

I am currently re-reading Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl (which I thought was the best book of 2008 (however, it was published in 2007)). The best thing about the book is that it is oh so quoteable. So the next posts will probably just be me quoting it capisce?

"Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to the verbs to get or to take. He was always getting something off the ground, his act together, his hands dirty, the show on the road, someone's goat, the message, out more, on with things, lost, laid, away with murder. He was also always taking charge, the bull by the horns, back the night, something in stride, someone to the cleaners, a rain check, an ax to something, Manhattan."

""Always live your life with your biography in mind", Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.""