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“What is terrible about it doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful”

“for a moment, he felt out of place. Like he was the audience and not the other way around. An alien on a mission to observe how people live. And advanced being, in some ways, with his own wisdom to share, pioneering cues for what aided primitive humans. And in turn, they had magical elements, raw materials that were healing to him, too.”

“People who love each other fight. The opposite of love isn't anger. It's indifference. When people stop fighting, that's when you should be worried." - Patrick

“this is the thing about good and evil. They aren’t so far apart – and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”

“Success is often the result of a series of failures. You never learn anything about success, but failure can teach you a lot about a person"

“The future we seek at each other’s expense”

“a fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet”

“She’d always have these great stories. […] She had no family, so she’d just travel. She’d come back, I’d ask where she’d been, and she’d been hiking in Iceland, or kayaking in Thailand, or learning how to do pottery in Italy or something. We used to joke about it. I’d say, when are you going to get married, settle down? And she laughed and say maybe in the next life.”

“She felt that by any rational measure she was living an extraordinary life, but on the other hand she wasn’t sure what the goal had been. Later she stood alone on the terrace, filming the Mediterranean, and thought, ‘maybe this could be enough. Maybe not everyone needs to have a specific ambition. I could be the sort of person who just goes to beautiful places and owns beautiful things.’”

“take some pictures, take pictures every day, see if it makes you feel better” — on turning creativity while grieving

“she often found herself thinking about variations on reality, different permutations of events: an alternate reality […] none of these scenarios seemed less real than the life she’d landed in, so much so that she was struck sometimes by a truly unsettling sense that there were other versions of her life being lived without her. […] she could only play this game for so long.”

“she raised herself into a new life by sheer force of will”