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AT THAT TIME in my personal life, I was coming to grips with the end of the world. The familiar world, anyway. Many of us were. Scientists said it was ending now, philosophers said it had always been ending.
Millet was in her 50s when this was published but this line truly encapsulates the dread of growing up young on a dying planet. The rest of the novel does that well but this line in particular will make you set it down and think.
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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
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