“Imagine a place where I could scream and not be heard, and fail and not be seen. A place where my insignificance would not hurt, because everybody would be insignificant.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“Fear of what? Failure, probably. She was the sort of perfectionist who was so desperately frightened of being any degree of inadequate that, on occasion, the effort of trying at all was enough to paralyze her with doubt.”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
“But such fantasies did not comfort him so much as the idea that all death meant was nothingness, that everything would just stop: the pain, the anguish, the awful, suffocating grief. If nothing else, surely, death meant peace.”
― Babel
― Babel
“I was a really lonely kid. The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“Is anyone actually happy?" Hazel asked.
"People like you and me? Very intelligent people? Almost never. But who knows? Perhaps we will be the exception.”
― Immortality: A Love Story
"People like you and me? Very intelligent people? Almost never. But who knows? Perhaps we will be the exception.”
― Immortality: A Love Story
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