Where the Blue Begins
1922
Where the Blue Begins is a quietly radical novel about a man who has everything except the one thing he needs. Gissing lives a perfectly comfortable life in his suburban woodland home with Fuji, his devoted Japanese butler: good books, good meals, good peace. Yet something haunts him. Spring whispers things he cannot name. Restlessness dogs his heels like a shadow he cannot shake. Then one night, drawn by mysterious whistling in the dark, he discovers three abandoned puppies huddled beneath a bridge and carries them home. What follows is neither simple nor serene. The puppies dismantle his carefully ordered solitude, turn his domestic routines to delightful chaos, and force him to confront what he has been avoiding: that a life of quiet comfort can also be a life of quiet escape. Morley writes with tender humor and philosophical grace about the terrifying, exhilarating weight of loving something outside yourself.
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“There is only one success”
— Christopher Morley
“It is so easy to let life go by us in its swift amusing course, that sometimes it hardly seems worthwhile to attempt any bold strokes for truth. Truth, of course, does not need assistance; it can afford to ignore our errors. But in this quiet place, among the whisper of the trees, I seem to have heard a disconcerning sound. I have heard laughter, and I think it is the laughter of God.””
— Christopher Morley
“opened her big blue eyes and””
— Christopher Morley
“As far as I can, I will undo the mischief which my sister has done. It is true that I have not the power to prevent altogether what she has decreed. The Princess shall, indeed, prick her finger with the spindle of the spinning-wheel on the day when she attains her fifteenth year; but instead of dying she shall fall into a deep sleep; and this sleep shall last for a hundred years, and when that time is past, a King's son shall come to waken her.””
— Christopher Morley
“all things are simple when once you know them.””
— Christopher Morley
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