“Your Majesty- tugging my ear. Whenever”
― The Selection
― The Selection
“That's because language doesn't work to manipulate people into believing things they don't want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they're already open to”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know- were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because they were growing in his own backyard?”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I slipped back in, ghostlike, to save the ice cream sandwich in front of the corpse of the son I could not. Thirty minutes in the freezer resuscitated the sandwich. Pretty tasty, I thought, picking chocolate chips out of my teeth as the family said its last goodbyes. I wondered if, in my brief time as a physician, I had made more moral slides than strides.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“He tries to recall when it was, exactly, that Nélida went from being a nursing home employee to someone who believes she has the right to give advice and her opinion, and to fall again and again into platitudes and irritating clichés”
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