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Note to self - “Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle”

Montgomery is so annoying

“’We are all alone in the world,' he said, and his words were the clouds when they muffle the moon at night"

“…I found that I couldn’t muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was look after one another and clean up the various hells we’ve made right here on earth.”

“The foolishness of men who care…and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first - but also exploit the first - while the first misunderstand the second, hoping the second are more like the first. And all their games steal our time. Second by second.”

“I’d told him I was someone else. And then I started getting angry that he couldn’t see who I really was.”

“Somewhere inside the city walls, a glow rises: a sunrise in the wrong place and time. Strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away.”

“You can cling to this world for a thousand years and still be plucked out of it in a breath.”

“He had a love affair with photosynthesis. He could talk about moss for an hour. He said that plants carried wisdom humans would never be around long enough to understand.”

“‘That’s what the gods do,’ he says, “‘they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.”