I couldn’t explain it, not even to myself, but books gave me an unflinching sense of stability and groundedness. That because words survived, somehow I would too.


“At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One

“When your whole world is going to hell, all you need is someone who sounds like he knows the way.”
― Empire of the Vampire
― Empire of the Vampire

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?” Fezzik asked. “I think everybody will in the near future” was the man in black’s reply. “They’re terribly comfortable.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride

“Life is pain,” his mother said. “Anybody that says different is selling something.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe

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