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“You would do well to remember this: In a humane world, there isn’t a single person alive who can be replaced by another… For better or worse.”
“The way to not sink into self-pity and despair – the way to not die – was to look forward to things. Anything; the tinier the better, because then you were more likely to get it. The patterns of ice on the water barrels, the feeling of holding a hot mug. Anything to stop the onset of the terrible docility that came before you gave up. Collect enough bright things, and it was possible to have a good day.”
― The Half Life of Valery K
― The Half Life of Valery K
“Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd.”
― The Half Life of Valery K
― The Half Life of Valery K
“He thought wearily that he had better recruit some women. Women didn't do stupid thing just to prove they were really good at being women.”
― The Half Life of Valery K
― The Half Life of Valery K
“What's gone before you, and what will come after,' I said instead.
'Beg pardon?'
'The past ahead. Time is like a river and you float with the current. Your ancestors set off before you did, so they're far ahead. Your descendants will sail it after.”
― The Bedlam Stacks
'Beg pardon?'
'The past ahead. Time is like a river and you float with the current. Your ancestors set off before you did, so they're far ahead. Your descendants will sail it after.”
― The Bedlam Stacks
“You stop, and you turn back into stars. Mum says everyone’s made of stars. Is that true?’ ‘Yes,’ he said, and liked Anna even more than before. ‘All matter is forged by nuclear fusion reactions in the hearts of stars. They take hydrogen atoms, which are the littlest bits of the stuff the world is made of, and they bolt them together into bigger and bigger atoms – helium, oxygen, carbon, everything. All the atoms that make you. You’re star dust.’ She looked pleased with that. ‘And then when my atoms have finished being me, they go off back to the stars?’ ‘Some of them will be rain, some will be earth, some will float away and light up when the solar wind comes, and that makes the aurora. And like you say, some of them will find their way back into a star.”
― The Half Life of Valery K
― The Half Life of Valery K
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