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Yesterday, an old man hobbled up over a ridge of rusted bicycles and punched me so hard he broke my nose. By law, I had to let him. I had to say: Thank you, Grandfather, for my instruction.
“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“To know a person’s bad habits along with their good ones? To see them at their worst and at their best? To fight and play with them through all the seasons of this life? And to still wake up every morning happy to see their face? This is love.”
― Archangel's Light
― Archangel's Light
“He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Survival is insufficient.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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