“Sandy knew her plan was shit. But sometimes better ideas grew out of bad ones. Shit makes good fertilizer, her Gramps used to say, and a wrong track can lead to a new perspective, and a better path.”
― Eden's Endgame
― Eden's Endgame
“And though in the clockless, temperature-controlled casino night, words like 'day' and 'Christmas' were fairly meaningless constructs, 'happiness,' amidst the loudly clinked glasses, didn't seem quite such a doomed or fatal idea.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“understand one day. We all marry”
― Finding Rebecca
― Finding Rebecca
“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable”
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“You must see the darkness to appreciate the light.”
― The Atlantis World
― The Atlantis World
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