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I love a book that immediately opens with a very dramatic and gruesome medical intervention with a touch of mystery. 🍿😎

“So a new species was perfectly possible. But along with the excitement of a new species was the worrisome possibility of new diseases.”

“He died that day because his body served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life.”

“Sometimes things change, and we have to change, too.”

“I understood why she wanted Denny to go: as he fell asleep that night, she wanted him to dream of her as she used to be, not as she currently was; she didn’t want Denny’s vision of her to be corrupted by her presence.”

“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is comprised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”

“Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.”

“People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another’s conversations constantly.”

“It’s not the quality of the man,” Denny tried to explain. “It’s the quality of the team.”

“That which you manifest is before you.”

“It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else, but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.”

“Expect the unexpected, dear.“

“Maybe someone could have given me a heads up on the possibility of free-range Kraken? And maybe they should put a lock on his tank.”

“Conscience does make cowards of us all, huh?”

“A humans sense of deliciousness was shaped by the people who fed them when they were young.”

“I know she drinks to numb the pain but never enough to dull her reflexes.”

“Do you ever regret not finishing? I get to run my own show. Only now I serve the liquor instead of the lies. Pleasure instead of death.”

Hayden Panettiere of course just dropped her memoir this year too.. R.I.P.👼🏼 🙏🏻🧎‍♀️‍➡️🛐📚 first Michelle Trachtenberg, now this?! My childhood heros are crumbling around me. I need to check in again with Amanda Bynes now.

“Getting older also helps you develop xray vision. The strange thing is that moment people start looking at you less, you start being able to see through people more. “

We are socialized to think the world is fair. It makes the world feel more predictable, if we believe good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior punished. The problem is, that we then subconsciously believe people who suffer must deserve it. It’s what allows us to look away. Turn the television off. People sometimes say that everything happens for a reason. No, no it does not. There was no reason. It just did.

“If you tell yourself you’re going to be unhappy, you will be! You can choose how to see your future.”

“Eve straightens her mother’s black dress, her go to dress for funerals. Imagine having a go to dress for funerals! Thats what it’s like to be old, as if wrinkles were not enough.”

“Fate won’t be fought.”

“What a beautiful thing to help someone die with dignity. Hugo said. It reminds me of that Leonardo Da Vinci quote, what is it again? Something like, “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.””