Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics.
“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat’s ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they’d not long since been rooted out.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“Sometimes people have to do things that just seem right. That seem right in their hearts, I mean. And if they do those things and then end up not feeling right, full of questions and sort of like they got indigestion, only inside their heads instead of in their guts, they think they made a mistake.”
― Pet Sematary
― Pet Sematary
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