“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
“You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
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