Nobody''s Fool (Sully #1)

by Richard Russo

Status
Finished reading
Rating
★★★
Started
May 23, 2019
Finished
May 23, 2019
Pages
549

Highlights

Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years—that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.

…pain could have a cumulative effect. Your ability to withstand it had much to do with your ability to catch your breath between its assaults.

The more he thought about it, life’s truest meanings were all childhood meanings, childhood understanding of how things worked, what they were. Do we ever know as deeply as we know in childhood? Does adult life amount to anything more than a futile attempt to invalidate the deepest truths we know about ourselves and the world?

Probably the best bit of this entire novel.