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The Old Man
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“I like big dogs,” he said. “They’re calmer and quieter. It’s scared dogs that bite.” “I don’t know,” she said. “You really want to have two animals that could kill you? You’re—” “An old man. A stiff breeze could kill me.”
“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.” Gustave Le Bon”
― The Wisdom of Crowds
― The Wisdom of Crowds
“I took Elspeth home first. I had written to my father while we were on honeymoon, and had had a letter back saying: “Who is the unfortunate chit, for God’s sake? Does she know what she has got?” So all was well enough in its way on that front.”
― Flashman
― Flashman
“What comes next? Her cold house. Their bedroom, with all Jack’s clothes in the wardrobe, his toothbrush on the sink. Just this morning she’d found a print-off he’d left for her, stuck to the fridge.”
― The Ruin
― The Ruin
“Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?
"I don't know," Connor shrugged, exhausted. "Your stories never made any sense to me."
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― A Monster Calls
"I don't know," Connor shrugged, exhausted. "Your stories never made any sense to me."
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― A Monster Calls
“What a strange and beautiful sight, thought Woolly. The city of New York silent, motionless, and virtually uninhabited, sitting perfectly idle, without the hum of a single expectation for the very first time since its founding.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
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