Jim
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He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
“No,” he whispers. “This is not the end. I loved you before I ever met you. I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold
“When you think little of yourself, everyone else’s opinion of you becomes more important than your own.”
― The Fall of Babel
― The Fall of Babel
“Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“During my first term as NYPD commissioner, Sharpton had functioned largely as a sharp-tongued publicity-seeking political gadfly,”
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
“He wanted to warn these children that time was not their friend; that though today might seem special, there would be a tomorrow, and a day after that; that the best-case scenario of a well-spent life was the slow and steady unraveling of the heart’s knot.”
― The Vanished Birds
― The Vanished Birds
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