A review by carrot_xo
The Book of Shhh by Lauren Oliver
5.0
A nice companion to the world of delirium. My favourite section is this:
{Here follows a small sampling of updated proverbs, insights, and lines of fine verse, prepared for approved use in our peaceful times.
Sanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and enjoying consistent results.
—Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is knowledge, not imagination.
—Albert Einstein
Love is composed of a single disease inhabiting two bodies.
—Aristotle
The deliria that does not kill us makes us weaker; more susceptible to future deliria.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and be grateful.
—Mark Twain
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one indicated safer by a sign
And that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
Think different and you risk an all-too-common devastating fate.
—Steve Jobs
Follow your handbook.
—Joseph Campbell
It is better to have never loved
Than to have loved before the cure.
—Lord Alfred Tennyson
Updated Proverbs and New Translations:
The pen and the sword are as mighty as what motivates them. If it is amor deliria nervosa, both are weapons of mighty danger.
Better to have lost one’s love, than never to have known contentment.
If you’re not working for the cure, you’re part of the disease.
Delirium loves company.
Idle minds are deliria’s playthings.
Two is controversy, three’s allowed.
Distance makes the heart grow stronger.
Always judge a book by its cover.
Men plan. God applauds.
An I needs an eye, or the world goes blind.
The road to hell is paved with small flirtations.
When one door closes, another one opens. Close both; a storm is afoot.}
Wow. I laughed so much at this! But a nice addition though.
{Here follows a small sampling of updated proverbs, insights, and lines of fine verse, prepared for approved use in our peaceful times.
Sanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and enjoying consistent results.
—Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is knowledge, not imagination.
—Albert Einstein
Love is composed of a single disease inhabiting two bodies.
—Aristotle
The deliria that does not kill us makes us weaker; more susceptible to future deliria.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and be grateful.
—Mark Twain
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one indicated safer by a sign
And that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
Think different and you risk an all-too-common devastating fate.
—Steve Jobs
Follow your handbook.
—Joseph Campbell
It is better to have never loved
Than to have loved before the cure.
—Lord Alfred Tennyson
Updated Proverbs and New Translations:
The pen and the sword are as mighty as what motivates them. If it is amor deliria nervosa, both are weapons of mighty danger.
Better to have lost one’s love, than never to have known contentment.
If you’re not working for the cure, you’re part of the disease.
Delirium loves company.
Idle minds are deliria’s playthings.
Two is controversy, three’s allowed.
Distance makes the heart grow stronger.
Always judge a book by its cover.
Men plan. God applauds.
An I needs an eye, or the world goes blind.
The road to hell is paved with small flirtations.
When one door closes, another one opens. Close both; a storm is afoot.}
Wow. I laughed so much at this! But a nice addition though.