#ph lit

"Intimate with no one, she yet needed a crowd always around her; the door shutting at dawn on the last guest oppressed her like a coffin's lid."

"But writing is about meeting, right? Resolving at sentence level. Resolve the different sounds vying for attention in her head, resolve the differences of words. Make them meet, make friends. Make them kin. So each word's survival depends on the next one and the next. So a poem becomes a family of words. Only then when it's worth offering to the reader, another possible kin."

"The characters of this novel are simple folk. They think simple thoughts and say things simply. They are very close to the soil. Their loves are vast but quiet; their hates are deathless and deep. They are representative of the Filipino, I think."

went through the shelves in school library. i feel like they just got most of these for show but under the fiction section they have his dark materials books 2-3 but not the first, along with the lost world and other michael crichton books besides jurassic park. however, they do have a complete collection of children's classics which i'm planning to read. there's the count of monte cristo too.

"She was fully awake, completely alive—but completely without flurry."

"And always, up there above the crowds and hot dust and skeleton ruins and gay cabarets: the mountains, and the woman sleeping in a silence mighty with myth and mystery—for she was the ancient goddess of the land (said the people) sleeping out the thousand years of bondage; but when at last she woke, it would be a Golden Age again for the land: no more suffering; no more toil, no rich and no poor."