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“Eon, era, period, epoch: we are a race that has long sought to break things up, to separate, to draw lines between things that might otherwise have remained as one.”

“At what point does a thing cease to be whole?”

“I find that the more I hide, the more presentable I am to the world.”

“You could get away with anything if no one cared enough to check.”

“And what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known”

“We shouldn’t make these machines because we want them to be good for us, or good instead of us. We should make them because they can help us be better ourselves.”

“‘So how do you stay ethical in the tech sector?’

‘You don’t.’”

“Likewise, our morality as individuals is formed not by innate personality traits but by the variables of our environment.”

“People come to a text with so many prejudices formed by what they think they know about the author,”

“But the best revenge is to thrive.”

“Who has the right to write about suffering?”

“To be a scientist is to learn to live one’s life with questions that will never be answered, with the knowledge that one was too early or too late, with the anguish of not having been able to guess at the solution that, once presented, seems so obvious that one can only curse oneself for not seeing what one ought to have, if only one had looked in a slightly different direction.”

“…but I suppose I had thought until that point that there were a few absolutes in the world—that certain behaviors or acts, like murder, were inherently wrong, and others inherently correct. But my time on Ivu’ivu taught me that all ethics or morals are culturally relative.”

“But time, I’ve come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs: we
speak of managing time, but it is the opposite—our lives are filled with busyness because those thin chinks of time are all we can truly master.”

“To fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life.”

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.”

“Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.”

“Even a feeble minded man wants to be like other men.”

“How can I make him understand that he did not create me?”

“‘But I’m not an inanimate object,’ I argued. ‘I’m a /person/.’
He looked confused for a moment and then laughed. ‘Of course, Charlie. But I wasn’t referring to now. I meant before the operation.’”

“People think it’s funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.”

"If they gave him enough time— if they didn't rush him or push him too fast— he would get it. But nobody has time.”

“That is what I’m hoping you will understand—every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.”

“In literature, everything means something.”

“If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?”

“Sang Ly, we /are/ literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow.”

“Without faith, there is no refuge.”

“‘You know, it’s funny the way you said that.’
‘The way I said what?’ Mosscap asked.
‘That you don’t need /an object to facilitate that feeling/.’ Dex gave a single chuckle. ‘You /are/ an object facilitating that feeling. The feeling’s coming from /you/, after all.’”

finally on the reading grind again