Because memory is fungible and we lack the omniscience to understand what role chance has played in our lives.
“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“Now any dogma, primarily based on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“because of the systematic mental erasure that the settlers had undertaken.”
― Perdido Street Station
― Perdido Street Station
“A man dressed in a radiant white uniform stands below the ragged maw of the jetway holding his hands downwards with fluorescent orange sticks in them, like Christ dispensing mercy on a world of sinners.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
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