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“Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Our brains don't remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough. And yet even when the meaningful is forgotten, memory doesn't define what it means to be human.”
― Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
― Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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