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“Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.”
― Ink and Bone
― Ink and Bone
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?”
― Heartbroken
― Heartbroken
“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone else’s. When you loved your kids, you’d give up everything to keep them safe and make them happy, and you didn’t care about the other things, the ones that went away.”
― Heartbroken
― Heartbroken
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
To shrug.”
― Atlas Shrugged
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
To shrug.”
― Atlas Shrugged
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