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Pg. 375
"How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you. [...] Better to pen a story of your own. Better to build your own house, with a foundation that was strong, with windows that let in plenty of light."

Pg. 275
"She wasn't afraid of dying, not really. It was the ultimate act of flight, an escape artist's tour de force."

Pg. 90

"Necessities helped people survive, but joyful excess gave them life."

Pg. 290
"To take the shards of their strange lives and make a mutual project of a new one, together."

Pg. 215
"Suddenly, the world seems divinely simple. Which I suppose is why people go to church in the first place. To reduce the complexities and the frailties of being human to the divine. To the simple."

Space does for comics what time does for film!

"They were happy. They were terrified. This is what it means to love."

Pg. 72
"Zerstörung ist ein so viel leichter zu meisterndes Handwerk als das Erschaffen von Schönheit."

Well okay damn. Also I never really cared for Balbulus but he also didn't need to go out this way!

Pg. 122

"I love working at the desk because everyone who comes up will talk to you, and it will be about something specific they need for their lives."

Pg. 63

"She wanted something sad for reading on the treadmill. If you keep walking while you're reading, she said, it won't stick in your heart."

Pg. 49

"when you eat, that's how you know the day us moving along."

Pg. 188

"Life is a series of choices between wonders."

Pg. 134

"my consciousness felt like a camera with a dirty lens"

Pg. 40
"Whether is hurts is kind of irrelevant"

Washing dishes is the antidote to confusion.

Pg. 283

"He still thinks that building a relationship with someone is about finding the things you have in common, not about steadily navigating the things you don't."

Pg. 255

"in order to get what you want, you often have to cross a vast emptiness. How much nicer it is to cross it in a van full of kindred spirits, rather than crossing it alone."