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  • I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.

    Sunset   Sunrise   Twelve  
    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin
  • Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a complete map of this world already grafted onto the folds of your cerebellum and you are just spending your entire life figuring out how to access this map?

    Feelings   World   Maps  
    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.328, Penguin
  • A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.

    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.151, Penguin
  • Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

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  • I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

    Long   Maps   Married  
  • I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

    Mean   Listening   Adults  
    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.318, Penguin
  • I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

    Apology   Ideas   Long  
    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.317, Penguin
  • A novel is a tricky thing to map.

    Maps   Tricky   Novel  
    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.49, Penguin
  • One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

    Running   Fear   Bathroom  
    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.220, Penguin
  • I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.23, Penguin
  • Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge.

    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin
  • A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

  • Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

    "Interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet for TS Spivet". Interview with Matthew Turner, www.filmuforia.co.uk. June 12, 2014.
  • How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

    Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin
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