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“You know what the definition of insanity is?”
“What?”
“Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Do you know the difference between the mind and the brain?” I ask.
Amanda blinks quickly a couple of times, and I can’t tell if she’s surprised that I know to ask in the first place or insulted that I am putting the question to someone with a degree. An associate’s degree, anyway.
“Yes, I know the difference,” she says. “Do you?”
“Your brain is an organ. Your mind is your consciousness, your thoughts, the definition of who you are.” I close my eyes, hoping that the words are right, the logic inside of me finding a channel out that others will comprehend. “The brain is a physical thing, but a mind is separate and indistinct. Like a soul. An identity.”
― Mindy McGinnis, This Darkness Mine

“We’re all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglas.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“It wasn't only their knowledge I craved, but the chance to study them, as one might one's own twisted reflections in a hall of mirrors. Surely in such observation, I'd find some repeated quality, a fragment of my true self carried through into each man, unsullied by the personalities of their hosts?”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle