“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet.”
― The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
― The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
“Puzzles are sort of like life because you can mess up and rebuild later, and you're likely smarter the next time around.”
― History Is All You Left Me
― History Is All You Left Me
“Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them, she used to say, and I think she was right.”
― Sometimes I Lie
― Sometimes I Lie
“Fuck love and just get fat.”
― Less
― Less
“every now and then I come across a glimmer of hope, a flash of human decency and I wonder if our salvation lies not in politics, or treaties, but in individual acts of kindness, which are as inexplicable as the violence our country has unleashed upon the world.”
― A Dangerous Act of Kindness
― A Dangerous Act of Kindness
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