Dating a grad student was like making hurried-up popcorn: lots of butter, high heat, instant noise.
“He thinks of the Christians sitting up on the walls, and the people praying inside the houses and churches of the city, and he wonders at the mystery of how one god can manage the thoughts and terrors of so many.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“History doesn’t abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we’ve forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.”
― Wintering
― Wintering
“If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker’s toss about anywhere?”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —Leon C. Megginson”
― Wish You Were Here
― Wish You Were Here
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