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I tried reading this book several times and never got in to it before finally picking up the audiobook and managing to finish it.The audiobook is a bit weird - it's a full-cast production but only for a few chapters. 75% of the book is read by the ma ...more "
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"Through mystical means Paul has become the kwisatz haderach, AKA an emo teenage boy who thinks he's better than everyone else." — Sep 17, 2014 02:17PM
"Through mystical means Paul has become the kwisatz haderach, AKA an emo teenage boy who thinks he's better than everyone else." — Sep 17, 2014 02:17PM
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"I am LIVING for Gideon’s extreme ~thirst~ even in near-death situations." — Nov 18, 2019 03:25AM
"I am LIVING for Gideon’s extreme ~thirst~ even in near-death situations." — Nov 18, 2019 03:25AM
“It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.”
― A History of the World in 100 Objects
― A History of the World in 100 Objects
“You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands.
“It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror?
“The touch of another person’s hands.
“Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else’s hand can ease pain and make things better.
“That’s power. That’s power so fundamental that most people never even realize it exists.”
― Skin Game
“It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror?
“The touch of another person’s hands.
“Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else’s hand can ease pain and make things better.
“That’s power. That’s power so fundamental that most people never even realize it exists.”
― Skin Game
“The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, we will discuss why some things cannot be discussed.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
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