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The Martian
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Here’s the cool part: I will eventually go to Schiaparelli and commandeer the Ares 4 lander. Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can’t until I’m aboard Ares 4 and operating the comm system. After I board Ares 4, before
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“It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Night
― Night
“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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