Amber Weintraub
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I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom. As you’ll see, it’s not a fair fight.
“Almost every particle in the universe was once part of a star,” she says softly. “Every atom in your body. The metal in your chair, the oxygen in your lungs, the carbon in your bones. All those atoms were forged in a cosmic furnace over a million kilometers wide, billions of light-years from here. The confluence of events that led to this moment is so remote as to be almost impossible.” She puts her hand on my shoulder. Her touch is awkward, as if she doesn’t quite know how to do it. But she squeezes gently. “Our very existence is a miracle.”
― Aurora Rising
― Aurora Rising
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“You shatter the world all over again, I suppose. And keep breaking it until you get one you can name Freedom.”
― The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
― The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
“in the words of Samuel Beckett: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
― How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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