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Bethyfly is on page 329 of 343 of The Vanishing Half
That was the thing about death. Only the specifics of it hurt. Death, in a general sense, was background noise. She stood in the silence of it.
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The Vanishing Half

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is finished with Forward: A Memoir
“You’re slowing down and processing it…I understand self-loathing. However, don’t stay too long with that. There’s no power there. There never will be.”
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Forward: A Memoir

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 150 of 326 of The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)
Hope alone was insufficient. If it did not translate into concert, planned and targeted action, then it was nothing more than fine words, and those meant nothing to these poor exiles.
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The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)

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Bethyfly is on page 122 of 326 of The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)
Why other choice was there? Treaties can be reconstructed, renegotiated, remade. Lives, once lost, are gone for good.
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The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 43 of 326 of The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)
A simple, magnificent equation: ingenuity plus hope equals change.
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The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 175 of 178 of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Be willing to stare down the ugliness and sadness. Life is absurdly hard, and pretending it isn’t is exhausting.
Feb 22, 2020 01:41PM Add a comment
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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Bethyfly is on page 161 of 178 of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
That’s the secret- don’t skip to the end.
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 127 of 178 of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
I read an article about how people in grief swear because they feel the English language has reached its limit in a time of inarticulate sorrow. Or at least that’s what I tell people when I am casually dropping f-bombs over lunch as I explain the mysteries of Lent.
Feb 16, 2020 05:27PM Add a comment
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 65 of 178 of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
The promise of heaven to me is this: someday I will get a new set of lungs and I will swim away.
But first I will drown.
Feb 16, 2020 02:02PM Add a comment
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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Bethyfly is on page 25 of 178 of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Spiritual laws offer an elegant solution to the problem of unfairness. They create a Newtonian universe in which the chaos of the world seems reducible to simple cause and effect. The stories of people’s lives can be plotted by whether or not they follow the rules. In this world there is not such thing as undeserved pain. There is no word for tragedy.
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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Bethyfly is starting Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Anyone who has lived in the aftermath of something like this knows that it signifies the arrival of three questions so simple that they seem, in turn, too shallow and too deep.
Why?
God, are you here?
What does this suffering mean?
Feb 16, 2020 06:16AM Add a comment
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 419 of 448 of Becoming
I am still in progress, and I hope I always will be.
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self.
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 408 of 448 of Becoming
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
“I can hurt you and get away with it”
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 395 of 448 of Becoming
It was possible, I knew, to live in two planes at once- to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 343 of 448 of Becoming
Grief and resilience live together.
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 313 of 448 of Becoming
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 34 of 448 of Becoming
To my dismay, he never rushed anyone along. Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 33 of 448 of Becoming
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Becoming

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Bethyfly is on page 23 of 448 of Becoming
It helped, too, to debunk various myths about who was who and what was what around the neighborhood, reinforcing the possibility- something that had long been a credit of my dad’s- that most people were good people if you just treated them well.
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Becoming

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is finished with Star Trek: Discovery: Dead Endless
Live your moments as you can....Accept happiness as you find it. Hold it as long as possible. Because for you, some moments have yet to happen, and some are gone forever. For this you have my pity and my awe.
Feb 01, 2020 07:24PM Add a comment
Star Trek: Discovery: Dead Endless

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 23 of 383 of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good, or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
Aug 12, 2019 03:39AM Add a comment
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 300 of 315 of See You in the Cosmos
These words we try to use to describe it, to describe that feeling, these words like live and bravery and truth, the reason they can’t describe it all the way, and the reason that sounds or music or pictures can’t describe it all the way either, is because THEY’RE all shadows too! WORDS ARE SHADOWS TOO!
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See You in the Cosmos

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 300 of 315 of See You in the Cosmos
What if the times when we feel love and act brave and tell the truth are all the times we’re four dimensional, the times were as big and everywhere as the cosmos, the times when we remember, like REALLY remember, really KNOW, that we’re made of starstuff and we’re human beings from the planet Earth
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See You in the Cosmos

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 300 of 315 of See You in the Cosmos
what if these things I’ve been trying to figure out, like the meaning of love and bravery and truth, what if the reason they’re so hard to see is because they’re ALSO tesseracts.
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See You in the Cosmos

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 300 of 315 of See You in the Cosmos
And if I’m still seeing them, still seeing his shadows, still learning things...about him that I didnt know before, then doesn’t that mean that even though he died there’s something about him that keeps living? That there’s something four-dimensional, a tesseract that never dies and we can never really see
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See You in the Cosmos

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 256 of 315 of See You in the Cosmos
Zed said one thing he loves about Contact and about Cosmos is they show how science can be deeply spiritual too. He said that a writer he really likes once said that most religions started off being based on science, only it was the best science that they had at that time
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See You in the Cosmos

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 130 of 315 of See You in the Cosmos
she said the building doesn’t have a basement but it does have a laundry room downstairs with machines that take quarters. I said, Oh, you mean like a slot machine, and Terra said they’re like the lamest slot machines ever, because even if you are lucky the only thing you win is clean clothes.
Jul 27, 2019 05:50PM Add a comment
See You in the Cosmos

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 70 of 141 of Big Fish
There’s an unspoken rule in my family that it’s best not to talk religion or politicos with my father. When the topic is religion he won’t talk at all, and when it’s politics he won’t stop talking.
Jul 23, 2019 03:25AM Add a comment
Big Fish

Bethyfly
Bethyfly is on page 66 of 141 of Big Fish
The room is dim, the grayness of an afternoon nap, though beyond the curtains you can see the outside light bursting to come in.
Jul 23, 2019 03:11AM Add a comment
Big Fish

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