On the Road 1.2

Favorite lines:

• "the only people for me are the mad ones" p.8
• "...the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell." p.9
• "intelligence was every bit as formal and shining and complete, without the tedious intellectualness." p.10
• "he was enthusiastic about things." p.18
• "threw himself on a stool" p.21
• "it had only sentimental value in any case" p.22 - usually that's the most important kind of value in clothes to me
• "wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad." p.57 - Sal seems to be sad a lot.
• "life is holy and every moment is precious" p.57
• "everybody in America is a natural born thief" p.71
• "He wrapped himself around a pole to laugh." p.74
• "A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world." p, 81 - I have a friend who I think sees women like this.  It's not necessarily lust, but he falls in love in a second with a girl who has something distinctly different or wonderful about the shape of her face, the way she walks, or the way sentences come out of her mouth.  It's very lovely.