“Sometimes I wonder what is happening to their brains, the way our devices are making us all ADD. We're like birds pecking at a feeder for the next fix of seed...”
― What Comes After
― What Comes After
“He checked all the correct interaction boxes and then went back to his books. Because there was an abyss, and books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there:”
― The Institute
― The Institute
“Her father was gone. Graveyards might have housed the dead below the ground, but hat lay above was always for the living; they were places where people come to deal with the break between what their lives had once been and what they are now.”
― The Shadows
― The Shadows
“A rich and mighty Persian once walked in his garden with one of his servants. The servant cried that he had just encountered Death, who had threatened him. He begged his master to give him his fastest horse so that he could make haste and flee to Teheran, which he could reach that same evening. The master consented and the servant galloped off on the horse. On returning to his house the master himself met Death, and questioned him, “Why did you terrify and threaten my servant?” “I did not threaten him; I only showed surprise in still finding him here when I planned to meet him tonight in Teheran,” said Death.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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