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“He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: computer-programming, human-brain

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“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: friendship, love, time, time-travel

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“It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

tags: death, goodbyes, grief, loss, love

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“He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

138 likes

“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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