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“I’d finished college long ago but often thought that if I could go back to those days and bring with me the curiosity and focus that had bloomed in me in the years since, I’d enjoy it so much more.”
― Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep
― Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep
“All men, I think, wonder who the secret man that lives inside them is and whom they will meet in the mirror when they stop shaving. They wonder if that man is better than the one they know. If that elder sage or fantasy wizard or feral mountain man will be wiser than they, and when they are lost, if that dude will light up his staff and guide them through the dwarven mines and out of the wilderness.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“I am no spring chicken but I am not an old lady. I know the names of all the members of Odd Future but I didn’t have the Internet in college. I can party like a twenty-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover. Sometimes I am a tired mother taking her kids to the park, and other times I am a petulant teenager giving the finger to a speeding FedEx truck. I idle right in the middle.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“She told me to stop writing this book. She told me to imagine a glass vase filled with blue marbles and to put all my sickness and fear into a single green marble. Then she told me to push that green marble all the way down into the middle of that vase and asked me if I could still see it. I couldn’t.”
― Broken Horses
― Broken Horses
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