Alex

“Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I think,” I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, “that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great.” For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Gluck

“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body