Ren

“The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.”
― cormac mccarthy, The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris

“Take those frauds who practice pseudoscience - do you know who they're most afraid of?"

"Scientists, of course."

"No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Host and sorrow to waste as one without distinction until the wretched coagulant is shoveled into the ground at last and the rain primes the stones for fresh tragedies.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris

“Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables