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“The pain of what? The pain of the raw torn places, the damaged membranes where he’d whanged up against the Great Indifference of the Universe. One big shark’s mouth, the universe. Row after row of razor-sharp teeth.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always assumed was life was actually death?”
― A Time for Everything
― A Time for Everything
“Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?”
― The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
― The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
“don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?”
― Royal Assassin
― Royal Assassin
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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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