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- the shootout at the start has huge Heat vibes
- this one reads more similar to a Ballard novel (which confusing I read before I even touched the early Bosch stuff)"
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Natalie Kyriacou
“We have built cities that scrape the sky, machines that think and a global network that allows people to yell at each other at any time of the day, from any part of the world. But when it comes to the question of whether we should keep our own planet habitable, humans remain curiously undecided”
Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

Pope Francis
“If we want to be able to understand how peace is made, and have the strength to make it, let us all be childlike.”
Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

Pope Francis
“Thank you is a phrase that is fundamental to life, starting with family life. Together with please and sorry, it’s a key that opens the way to a well-lived life, to a life of peace.”
Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

Natalie Kyriacou
“Humanity is the only species that actively debates whether or not it should maintain the environmental conditions necessary for its own continued existence. Other species do not struggle with this sort of thing.”
Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

Omar El Akkad
“Alongside the ledger of atrocity, I keep another. The Palestinian doctor who would not abandon his patients, even as the bombs closed in. The Icelandic writer who raised money to get the displaced out of Gaza. The American doctors and nurses who risked their lives to go treat the wounded in the middle of a killing field. The puppet-maker who, injured and driven from his home, kept making dolls to entertain the children. The congresswoman who stood her ground in the face of censure, of constant vitriol, of her own colleagues’ indifference. The protesters, the ones who gave up their privilege, their jobs, who risked something, to speak out. The people who filmed and photographed and documented all this, even as it happened to them, even as they buried their dead.
It is not so hard to believe, even during the worst of things, that courage is the more potent contagion. That there are more invested in solidarity than annihilation. That just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away. None of this evil was ever necessary. Some carriages are gilded and others lacquered in blood, but the same engine pulls us all. We dismantle it now, build another thing entirely, or we hurtle toward the cliff, safe in the certainty that, when the time comes, we’ll learn to lay tracks on air.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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