She had, he thought, one of the world’s great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn’t feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.
“Wonder and awe have gone out of your religions. You are prepared to accept the irrational, but not the transcendent.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“Society didn’t mind if you broke the rules; it only required you to acknowledge them.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“She said his mind was tuned to the biggest music there was, the music of the stars.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
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