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“The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. The only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.”

“That wasn’t so uncommon a feeling for him. He felt good lots of days.
Trouble was, on the bad days, that was hard to remember. At those times, for some reason, he felt like he had always been in darkness and always would be.
Why was it so hard to remember? Did he have to keep slipping back down? Why couldn’t he stay up here in the sunlight where everyone else lived?”

“Ash fell from the sky.”

Always be skeptical. It keeps the powder dry.

“ I’m a smart man, but not as smart as I think I am. … The intergalactically dumb decisions and assumptions that caused these decisions are not a result of an inadequate IQ, but rather, an unwillingness to use it.” — Keith J Cunningham, vice chairman Berkshire Hathaway.

Oh, look! It’s a stream of utter nonsense said with absolute conviction! You’re definitely back.

The library loan automatically returned so I will have to wait through the hold queue to finish it.

I think every father makes a mess of things, what matters is if he cared when he did it.

So many characters dying and I am NOT OKAY.