Affinities Quotes

“Wait, so your power is to be oily?”
― Kirsten Krueger, Blood: A Young Adult Sci-Fi Novel

“All living things are guided by "an inner light" that they "must involuntarily obey". [...]

The tree can no more melt like the icicle than the river can stay rooted in one place. The sun can't shine cold. [...]

[When we accept that humans have certain inborn constitutional leanings and affinities; an inner tendency to be the way they are] we learn to be more tolerant and forgiving.”
― Jason Elias, The Five Elements of Self-Healing: Using Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity, Wellness, and Health

“The only reason for time', Einstein supposedly mused, 'is so that everything doesn't happen at once'. Interestingly, though, it seems nobody can find where he said that. Which raises the question of space. Within it, things are permitted to drift apart. This cleverly resolves the obvious problem of everything being crowded into a single hyper-dense dimensionless point in the cosmic void, and it also affords every blade of grass, every grain of sand, its peculiar dignity - its bold specificity and heroic autonomy. But there are costs: with space, it becomes possible to get lost; loneliness and disorientation are born. We suffer with these things, and can feel the stuff of the world similarly afflicted - what, in the end, is not, in some sense, out of place? What potsherd on this planet does not quietly keen for its kin?
All of which invites a gentle revision of the pseudo-Einstein quip: perhaps the real reason for time is so that everything has an opportunity to find everything else.”
― D. Graham Burnett