“I'm sorry," I say. "About being a bit odd sometimes, at school."
Camille shakes her head. "You really have to stop saying that. Incessant apologizing is never an attractive trait."
"You're right. The thing is, I really am quite bad, you know, with people."
"Ah, them. People. Yes, it's hard."
"And I have a lot, sometimes, going on in my head."
"Join the club."
"There's a club?"
"No. There are too many people in clubs. But it's fine. Be how you want to be.”
― How to Stop Time
Camille shakes her head. "You really have to stop saying that. Incessant apologizing is never an attractive trait."
"You're right. The thing is, I really am quite bad, you know, with people."
"Ah, them. People. Yes, it's hard."
"And I have a lot, sometimes, going on in my head."
"Join the club."
"There's a club?"
"No. There are too many people in clubs. But it's fine. Be how you want to be.”
― How to Stop Time
“History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other.
In those monents that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be?
The future is you.”
― How to Stop Time
In those monents that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be?
The future is you.”
― How to Stop Time
“The brain of a psychopath is different from most, I've weighed up my chances. Eighty per cent genetics, twenty per cent environment. Me. One hundred per cent fucked.”
― Good Me, Bad Me
― Good Me, Bad Me
“And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes and let every futile fear slip away. And then, in this new state, free from fear, you ask yourself: who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do? If I could be kind without the fear of being fucked over? If I could love without fear of being hurt? If I could taste the sweetness of today without thinking of how I will miss that taste tomorrow? If I could not fear the passing of time and the people it will steal? Yes. What would I do? Who would I care for? What battle would I fight? Which paths would I step down? What joys would I allow myself? What internal mysteries would I solve? How, in short, would I live?”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
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