“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
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Have a gay Caltech professor and his dying mother uncovered the secrets of the mind... and the universe? Tom Flaherty's mother is suffering from a strange form of dementia that causes her to journey back in time; especially when she's housecleaning and finds personal items that trigger her memory. But Maude Flaherty's travels--from the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 to the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963--might be the evidence Tom needs as a Caltech physicist to develop a unified theory of space, time, and place and reconnect with a society he's lost touch with since the loss of his partner a decade ago. As Tom attempts to determine just what is happening to his mother, the sense of wonder that disappeared with Ken's murder returns and his renewed quest for the meaning of life leads him to the national spotlight. Housecleaning is both a gay love story and a family drama, questioning science and faith and how scientists see the universe as God.
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“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
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“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”
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“The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to...”
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“no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see...”
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“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor...”
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“I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.”
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“You don’t need your eyes to love, right? You just feel it inside you. (Isabel Pullman)”
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“Quello che è forte, dei bambini piccoli, è che non dicono le cose con l’intenzione di ferire, anche se poi lo fanno. È che non sanno veramente quello che dicono. I ragazzi grandi no: loro lo...”
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