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“The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“Fun fact: This is exactly how the Apollo 1 crew died. Wish me luck!”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“This all sounds like a great idea with no chance of catastrophic failure. That was sarcasm, by the way.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“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.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
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