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Olivia Briscoe
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“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“The truth is,” Olive said, behind a lectern in Paris, “even now, all these centuries later, for all our technological advances, all our scientific knowledge of illness, we still don’t always know why one person gets sick and another doesn’t, or why one patient survives and another dies. Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s an awful randomness about it.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“You write a book with a fictional tattoo and then the tattoo becomes real in the world and after that almost anything seems possible. She’d seen five of those tattoos, but that didn’t make it less extraordinary, seeing the way fiction can bleed into the world and leave a mark on someone’s skin.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“—and my point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
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Olivia’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Business, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Suspense, Thriller, Young-adult, and War
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