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“She would recognize his heart—she knew his heart. His heart was wounded like hers, but it was strong, it wouldn't flinch or shy away from her. It would beat faster, harder, in concert with hers.”

"I don't think that's how magic works." LaLa looked at her sadly. "Believing something doesn't make it true."
"But what if the reason I believe this is because it is TRUE?”

“I am HIS true love. I believe it with the same confidence that I believe that water fills the oceans and morning follows the night. I believe it with all my heart and soul. And there has to be some sort of magic in that."

“It's fine. Truly. What's that saying about love? You know the one that mentions the sugar, the fire, and cost of desire?”

Two simple words. Only they did not feel simple at all. They felt like falling. They felt like hope. They felt like the most important words in the world. The words made her blood rush and her head spin until once again it was only her and Jacks. Nothing existed except for the press of his cool forehead, the feel of his strong hand tangling in her hair, and the pleading, broken look in his quicksilver blue eyes.

“He'd never understood why someone would watch another person sleep ... 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒓.”

“One visit wasn't an obsession.”

“The thought made something unclench inside her and, for a second, Evangeline felt safe. More than safe, actually. But she didn't quite have words for the exact feeling. She only knew it wasn't something shed experienced before—this deep level of protectiveness.”

“ ‘He would carry ber through more than just freezing waters. He would pull her tbrough fire if be bad to, baul her from the chutches of war, from falling cities and breaking worlds...’ “

“Hoping and imagining and believing in magic had always been like breathing to HER.”

“She shouldn't want any of this, because it wasn't real. But what actually made something real? If it was a lack of magic, then nothing in the North was entirely real.”

"There are heroes, and there are villains. She made her choice between the two, and she got the ending that came with it." Jacks said

“The universe is also a killing machine, responsible for asteroid and comet impacts, the most famous of which struck Earth sixty-six million years ago, rendering all the famous oversized dinosaurs extinct, as well as o percent of all other land and marine species of lite on tarth. No land animal larger than a duffel bag survived.”

“Earth has been teeming with life ever since it could support life. Yet Earth is also a giant killing machine. More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct from forces such as regional and global climate change as well as environmental assaults such as volcanoes, hurricanes, torna-does, earthquakes, tsunamis, disease, and infestations.”

“Math can be beautiful.
Chemistry can be beautiful.
Biology can be beautiful.”

“Physics can be beautiful.”

“as a reminder that cosmic perspectives can force you to take pause and reflect on the meaning of life, and on the value of peace that sustains it.
A form of beauty unto itself.
But nature does not limit its beauty to things.”

“The truths of nature are rampant with beauty and wonder, out to the largest of measures of space and time.”

“We persistently fall speechless at the singular spectacle that is a total solar eclipse. Who can turn away from the crescent Moon and Venus, together, suspended in the twilight skies?”

“Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.”

“Differences in opinion enrich the diversity of a nation, and ought to be cherished and respected in any free society, provided everyone remains free to disagree with one another and, most importantly, everyone remains open to rational arguments that could change your mind.”

“Personal truths have the power to command your mind, body, and soul, but are not evidence-based. Personal truths are what you're sure is true, even if you can't-especially if you can't-prove it”

“They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.”

“The only era in which science could not assure objective truths was before the seventeenth century, back when our senses- inadequate and biased-were the only tools at our disposal to inform us of the natural world.”

“The era of "modern physics," born with the quantum revolution of the early twentieth century and the relativity revolution of around the same time, did not discard Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Instead, it described deeper realities of nature, made visible by ever-greater methods and tools of inquiry.”

“Objective truths, established by repeated experiments that give consistent results, are not later found to be false. No need to revisit the question of whether Earth is round; whether the Sun is hot; whether humans and chimps share more than 98 percent identical DNA; or whether the air we breathe is 78 percent nitrogen.”

“scientists may be the exclusive discoverers of what is objectively true in the universe. Objective truths apply to all people, places, and things, as well as all animals, vegetables, and minerals. Some of these truths apply across all of space and time. They are true even when you don't believe in them.”

“If your research is checked by col-leagues, and nobody can duplicate your findings, the integrity of your future research will be held suspect,”

“perhaps, nothing more human than the methods, tools, and discoveries of science.”

“If we instead back away from all that divides us, you might find common, unifying perspectives on the world.”