Narrator Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor with a passion for Flaubertâ€™s writings. Two museums claim to own this bird, which served as a muse to Flaubert. We hope you’ll join us.The storyline of this book centers on deciphering the mystery of which stuffed parrot actually sat on Flaubertâ€™s desk while he wrote his books. That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people

Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Julian Barnes, quote from Flaubert's Parrotīy Tamara Ireland Stone About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, This search is a sign of love, I maintain.” That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. Sometimes you find the panel but it doesn’t open sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. She didn’t ever search for that sliding panel which opens the secret chamber of the heart, the chamber where the memory and corpses are kept. She was fond of me - she would automatically agree, as if the matter weren’t worth of discussing, that she loved me - but she unquestioningly believed the best about me.

I never provoked her I was cautious and defensive, as is my habit I didn’t even ask questions but I wanted to know the worst. “What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love’s favourite perversion? … I loved Ellen, and i wanted to know the worst.

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes