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“your eyes or changing the subject. You were forced to deal with that person’s behavior. The experience was, in the end, a loss of certain illusions. The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“a sign of insecurity—forgoing aging signifies clinging to an unfinished youth, as if you’re not ready to move on. Forgoing death implies a life unfinished, a life one is not happy with.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Plague

“And there you had it; I was paving the highway to hell in beer bottles and kisses. But”
― Denise Grover Swank, Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes