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I forgot how good Sanderson is at plot twists.

Almost to Haven, started the book

Dang. Prentisstown is peeved.

“The more we learn about other worlds, the more fortunate our presence on earth appears.”

“Okay, Rocky,” I say. “Get comfortable. I have a lot of science to explain.”

“If indeed we discover that life began in the Eridania Basin, what a magnificent illustration of the unity of knowledge that would be. Understanding developed over centuries, the life’s work of thousands of explorers, field geologists, chemists, biologists, astronauts, engineers, distilled into the discovery of a second genesis.”

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”

“I wouldn’t bet on life in the clouds of Venus, but I wouldn’t rule it out until we’ve explored a little more carefully.” - David Grinspoon, astrobiologist

I find myself when reading to want things to work out always in the protagonists favor, more so if great effort is involved to obtain it. To not have that happen is depressingly real yet strangely comforting. Fitz is not great; neither I’m I.

Burrich is the best!

“It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.”

Really loving this book

“…And tomorrow we’ll do the same again. And again. Until one day you get up and find out that whatever it was didn’t kill you after all.”

I haven’t been so engrossed with a book since Mistborn.