The pressure of being a perfectionist, the unarticulated terror of not being an automatic expert. It would pass, she knew, but that never calmed her jangling nerves or settled her stomach at the time.
“If you want to control people, isolating them is really the smartest move you can make. As long as you control their food supply, their healthcare, their education, and, most of all, their access to information and the outside world, it will be almost impossible for them to fight back.”
― Throne of Ice and Blood
― Throne of Ice and Blood
“Life is measured in birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. First steps. A first crush. A first kiss. Firsts, not lasts, are the tallies on a life’s scorecard.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
“We can live a billion different ways from here, but there’s only one path behind us. That was never going to change.”
― How It Unfolds
― How It Unfolds
“These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“I’ve been lonely for a long time. Sure, I’ve had friends, colleagues, so I’m not isolated. But I still feel it. It’s the deep, lasting kind of loneliness. The hollow kind that settles in your bones.”
― Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
― Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
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