“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
― The Matched Trilogy: The Complete Collection
― The Matched Trilogy: The Complete Collection
“But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as whys—why he walks like this, why he closes his eyes like that—you can love those parts, too, and it’s a love at once more complicated and more complete.”
― Crossed
― Crossed
“The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“You’ll always have discontents in any system, Kate. Some people feel they’re being oppressed or held back, even if they have everything they need or everything that a reasonable person could want. Some people always want more.”
― Time's Edge
― Time's Edge
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