I heart Howard Roarke
I finally finished reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead last week (completing another task for my list ). When asked what I liked about it I found that my reasons sounded so strange because, I realized as I spoke, the reasons that I wound up liking the book were the reasons I didn't like the book at the beginning. I also found it hard to talk about the things I felt really amazed by without giving away some of the good parts of the book; I wound up saying what I think best friend K said to me a couple years back, "you just have to read it!" Some great quotes: " Worry is a waste of emotional reserve." "Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched." "You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they’re not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict--and they...