falling for you

One has been an inveterate collector of quotes from literature [1] for a very, very, very, very long time. If one came across a quote that was emotionally resonant with me I'd usually write it down in a big book of quotes. Eventually this became an overly large customized fortune cookie program which would give me a quote to (briefly) meditate upon when I logged in to my computer. They aren't always good quotes in isolation - sometimes the quote is only appropos to my mood at the time or will only make sense in the context of the larger work in which it was originally rendered - but they affected me enough that I believed that I should take some measure to preserve their existence outside of their origin. For a while they even masqueraded as serialized book reviews in my .plan, or, briefly, as book reviews in this journal. Whilst I have continued to collect these quotations, there is now less of a public forum in which to display them for the edification of others. After all, I have not the wit or desire to elocute them to my friends in person; I bore them to tears already without adding such tripe to their diet. Instead I have decided that I shall occaisionally cast them forth upon the waters of this journal, under an appropriate cut, both to prevent eyestrain to those uninterested in such things and to prevent any possible spoilage of the story for those who have yet to enjoy it (although one will endeavour to avoid posting any quote that reveals an important spoiler in any case). I shall not even thinly veil it as a book review, save that you can assume that I found the book enjoyable enough to read and that it conatined a quote of sufficient quality. No other warranty is asserted or implied. Caveat lector. It begins. ( Dead Beat by Jim Butcher ) [1] For a given value of literature.