“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”
― All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
― All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness. Only I did not think it would be so soon. Or that he would precede us. Two passing temporarinesses developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond. I mistook him for a solidity, and now must pay. I am not stable and Mary not stable and the very buildings and monuments here not stable and the greater city not stable and the wide world not stable. All alter, are altering, in every instant. (Are you comforted?) No. (It”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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