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“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“Eternity bids thee to forget.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“I'm nothing. the thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where is nothing is real.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“He found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward - ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than some.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward - ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than some.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
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