“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“The architecture—the mind—is knitting together. It’s sentience. Vague sentience. All these years of formulating machines that know something, while the secret is to create machines that don’t know something.”
― A Working Theory of Love
― A Working Theory of Love
“Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.”
― A Working Theory of Love
― A Working Theory of Love
“The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals? Never mind that memory rigged the game, airbrushed the flaws from its contestants, while the present had to shuffle into the spotlight unaided, all pockmarked with mundanities and baggy with annoyances.”
― Spoonbenders
― Spoonbenders
“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the women. It’s the great male fantasy—all it takes is one dance to know that she’s the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know—this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don’t want a very long courtship. They want to know immediately.”
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
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