Brooke
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“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”
― Daisy Miller
― Daisy Miller
“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Platform
― Platform
“If you truly, truly want the rainbow, you've just gotta put up with the fucking rain. That's really it.”
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“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits of sceptical thought, they will probably not restrict their scepticism to UFOs, aspirin commercials and 35,000-year-old channellees. Maybe they’ll start asking awkward questions about economic, or social, or political, or religious institutions. Perhaps they’ll challenge the opinions of those in power. Then where would we be?”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Brooke’s 2025 Year in Books
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