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p31: "It’s funny. No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven't seen anything. And that's life. We live our lives trying to find our way. It’s like that Santöka Taneda poem, the one that goes, 'On and on, in and in, and still the blue-green mountains."

p30: “The short version is I wanted to see the whole world for myself. I wanted to see the whole range of possibilities. Your life is yours. It doesn’t belong to anyone else. I wanted to know what it would mean to live life on my own terms."

p347: "Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?"

- Canadians mentioned… LMAO
- I read two chapters more quickly without the audiobook and I’m able to follow along a lot better now
- still don’t know how I feel about this book because there are some comical bits but what is going on

"Amaze is wrong word," he says. "Amaze is compliment. Better word is ♪♪』♪”
"What's that mean?"
"It is when person not act normal. Danger to self."
"Ah," I say, adding the new chord into my language database.
"Crazy. My word for that is "crazy."
"Crazy. Humans are crazy."

p265: “I am happy. You no die. Let’s save planets!”

I can’t take this book seriously fr but this made me laugh while listening to the audiobook

the audiobook is making this more manageable

p84: “There is something about a city that isn't yours. Perhaps the trip to a new city, the luxury of walking leisurely through a busy metropolis, observing a hustle that does not require your participation. You walk past scaffolding around a building without any consideration of when the construction work will be completed, how it will affect your commute, if you will benefit from whatever new structure rises.”