Herb 'n' Lorna (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Peter Leroy: The main character.
• Lorna Piper: Married to Herb, (her maiden name was Huber), she is Peter's maternal grandmother.
• Herb Piper: Married to Lorna, he is Peter's maternal grandfather.
• Mrs. Stolz: Add a description of this character.
• Garth
• Luther Huber
• Mark
• Dudley
• Margot
• Martha
• Bertha
• Benjamin
• Buster
• Richard Huber
• Andrew
• Alice
• Lena
• Dan
• Miklos
• Mrs. Mikszath
• Lester
• Millie
• Andy
• Tom Piper
• Reynaldo
• Frank
• Loewy
• Eleazer
• Albertine
• Inge
• Tessie
• Ellen
• Andrea
• Wyeth
• Fred
• Katherine
• Simon

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• “This business of changing the name of our town is a foolish practice....We imagine that if we call ourselves Naples or Rome, we will become intoxicatingly beautiful.”

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• Traveling is a fool’s paradise…. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from…. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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• Oh, you know it’s just the damnedest thing, isn’t it, the way we hold ourselves back! Of course, in the long run it’s probably for the best that we do, or we’d be throwing ourselves at half the people we meet and throwing stones at the others.

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• You know how it is—when we’re young we don’t know how we want to live. We don’t even know what there is to want. We only know conventional names. We only recognize commonplace models. It takes years for us to see how many ways there are to live.

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• The small occurrences in our lives sometimes mean the most to us, and offering to share them is an invitation to the most intimate friendship, but because they don’t make exciting stories, they don’t often interest other people, not even people we think of as friends.

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• The natural genius salesperson, whether he or she peddles books, cars, furniture, jewelry, pocket calculators, or investment schemes, is a carrier of his or her own infectious self-deception.

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• It’s a negative desire: not to lose one’s dignity, not to look foolish. It may be love’s worst enemy.

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• “You either die or grow old—or both. It’s hopeless.”

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• more pleasant than painful. Not having him with her was what hurt her; remembering him didn’t hurt her at all.

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• God’s Own Wonder-Working Tonic, an invigorating compound of three potent ingredients: work to be done (keeps the eyes bright and focused on the future), self-respect (keeps the head up, also the corners of the mouth, and makes the past, on the whole, a pleasant place to visit), and lust (keeps important bodily fluids flowing and makes the present thrilling).

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• “People like that,” said Dudley, “want copies of the same snapshot, strung out from here to eternity. They want to be able to think that they already know what they’ll be pasting on the blank pages of the photo album of their lives.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Boston
• Berwick
• New York
• Albany
• Maryland
• Whatsit Valley
• Florida
• Germany
• Tuscany
• Humboldt
• Savannah
• Lake Serenity
• Babbington, New York: Where Herb and Lorna settled after getting married.
• Punta Cachazuda, Florida: Where Herb and Lorna retire.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Eric Kraft (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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