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“We learn from one another and teach one another. That is what life is all about. For as we learn, we advance as a species. We learn until we die.”
― House Corrino
― House Corrino
“A baby wasn't an idea, as love was an idea. A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A baby was the oldest deal there was, to go on living.”
― The Passage
― The Passage
“We’re all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time. Usually associated with invasions, abductions, or other hostile acts, the term “alien” gets a bad rap. But over the years, the word has come to mean something very different to me... future friend material.”
― Saga #34
― Saga #34
“Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.”
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“Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.”
― The Cheese Monkeys
― The Cheese Monkeys
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