“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide the frame.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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