Edward Kennedy

“archaeological evidence consists mainly of fossilised bones and stone tools. Artefacts made of more perishable materials – such as wood, bamboo or leather – survive only under unique conditions. The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias. The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I felt like someone else. I felt like a normal person. But I got over it.”
― Lee Child, Make Me

“In his view, a corpse was merely an empty vessel for the spirit it had housed. “The soul,” he’d said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, “is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free. When my time comes, let my soul soar into the wind and the sky. Wherever its natural home is meant to be, that’s where it will go.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we’re more likely to kill ourselves than each other.”
― Lee Child, Make Me