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“Time is invisible. Unlike weight.
Ah, but maybe that wasn't true. You could feel weight, yes--when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy--but wasn't it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren't they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?”
― Elevation
Ah, but maybe that wasn't true. You could feel weight, yes--when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy--but wasn't it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren't they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?”
― Elevation
“Vru să meargă la ea și să-i spună ceva, poate chiar s-o ia în brațe, dar nu o făcu, știind că era zadarnic, căci oamenii sunt insule pustii, îndepărtate unele de celălalte într-un ocean al deznădejdii.”
― Bășica Lumii și a ne’Lumii
― Bășica Lumii și a ne’Lumii

“He was afraid—it would have been foolish not to be—but he was also curious. And something else. Happy? Was that it? Yes. Probably crazy, but definitely yes. Certainly he felt singled out somehow. Doctor Bob might think that was crazy, but Scott thought it was sane. Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
― Elevation
― Elevation

“Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation. If it's how dying feels, everyone should be glad to go.”
― Elevation
― Elevation

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