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Classic

So good. Better than mistborn.

“Rather than growing satiated with life, mature people seem
to increasingly realize they have only just begun to live.”

“Should you ever relinquish what you truly hold dear, the only path left to you will be that of a pencil-pusher—the type of animator whose sense of self- worth is determined by the numerical amount of his earnings, or who cycles between joy and despair over the high or low ratings his work receives.”
-Hayao Miyazaki

When you spend two years writing a post apocalyptic novel only to find out that some one in 1959 wrote one very similar…

“There’s a specific low level pain in learning to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity from loved ones.”
That part got me .

“Each persons life is made of stories we are not creature of flesh and blood alone, no more than a more is just ink, paper and card. We are beings of tale and fable. We exist as narratives. This is how we understand the world and how we must be understood.”

J Parker Palmer says:
-We “violate our nature”, when we serve out of a sense of moral “nobility”. or when we serve because we know we “ought to”.
-To pretend to love someone, when you don’t, damages your integrity.
-“Burn out” is proof that we have been giving to others from inorganic motivations.
I don’t think I agree.

So confusing but I think that may be the point.

This feels like watching LOST.

“Some questions will ruin you, if you are denied the answer long enough.”

“The natural world had became a sort of camouflage.”

“When you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

“Mark the dusky cloak streamed with gold and lined with blood-red silk: a charmed cloak, made by the sylphs in forgotten days, bringing good hap to the wearer, so he be true of heart and no dastard. Mark him that weareth it, his sweet dark countenance, the violet fire in his eyes, the sombre warmth of his smile, like autumn woods in late sunshine”

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps, though, it is easier to hide your fear when you are afraid all of the time.

“Grief.. is quicksand and heat..”

“Words are creators of worlds, you have to be careful how you use them.”

Many of us came into the world, screaming, and then spent our lives, enduring, the worlds, shouting back.

Boobie’s (Daniel Gibson) biggest crime was that he couldn’t be what people imagined him becoming, and some might say there are far worse crimes, but I believe failing the imagination of others might be the crime from which all other crimes are born…

“Death isn’t the only way to die, though it can be argued that it is the most merciful.”