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We’re so diametric, we’re almost negative images.
“I was curious. I touched the flame simply because it was burning. Because discipline always seemed to me the pin that held the butterfly in the display case.”
― How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
― How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
“If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“Two very different women in conflict with each other made for a more dramatic story than what was actually true.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“You have no concept of my level of introspection,” Julia shot back. “I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I’d rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“Memories sting when they come suddenly.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
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