“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly–they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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