No wonder they acted as if they owned the world. To them it must seem so small.
“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“We think that something in the past is not real any more, but it is still there in general relativity. It is part of the curved spacetime in which we live. Just because an event is behind us in our timeline does not make it any less real. When someone you love dies, or when a time that you valued is over, it can never be recaptured, but it is there.”
― The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
― The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
“The power to protect is the highest of responsibilities, Diago. When a man is given it, his duty is not only to the people he thinks are worthy.”
― The Will of the Many
― The Will of the Many
“Your Mom.”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“Surely no one else lived like this - burdened by the tiniest details they assumed had enormous consequences. Surely no one else was so anchored by anxiety. Other people could stumble and shake their heads and move on. How she envied their lightness.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
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