The Blue Place
by Nicola Griffith
Notes
2I finished this one, just barely. I read this mainly because I really liked her (at the time) latest novel Hild. But this one was run of the mill cop murder mystery sort of things that wasn’t bad, but wasn’t particularly good either.
Highlights:
There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you’re important, you’re not.
– Page: 112
Think about two young adults who go to college. One is brilliant, a genius who floats above her colleagues like a cirrus cloud, the other is merely a plodder: dogged, determined, competent. Throughout their education, the genius has always been able to leap obstacles as though they’re not there while the plodder has, through necessity, learned patiently to climb walls. One day, say in the second year of their Ph.D. programme, that genius will come across a wall so high even she can’t jump it. But she doesn’t know how to climb. The plodder, on the other hand, rubs his hands, checks his equipment, and starts hammering in the first piton. Who do you think will reach the top first?
– Page: 77
I learnt that pain is only pain: a message. You can choose to ignore the message. Your body can do a great deal more than it wants you to know.
– Page: 32