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“There are times, Green knew even then, when you just have to sit in your discomfort. Times when there is nothing to do but experience the rushing river of your own feelings and see what time and the flowing waters carve from the stone of your present self.”

“Winter ain’t here, but I expect it’s brushing its teeth and combing its hair.”

I’m deeeeefinitely gonna start saying this.

“He wanted guidance. He found it like a kid who wanted a cigarette and was forced to smoke a whole pack as punishment.”

Oh that is rich.

“No, things are not meant to be in the way I believe that phrase is commonly used. That is, meant for us because of some special merit or grace we possess. And yet, the idea that human purposes are the only purposes with weight and worth and meaning is manifestly absurd.”

THIS IS SO GOOD.

“For weeks, he felt that his life had been building to a crescendo of chaos and dread. Standing in the library tree, he began to feel a new hope that all his doubt and terror had been paying for something worth having, something he might actually cherish in an earnest, unforced way.”

“Self-preservation dictates that I must see the walls of ignorance as shelter, lest I begin to view them as a cage.”

“No, things are not meant to be in the way I believe that phrase is commonly used. That is, meant for us because of some special merit or grace we possess. And yet, the idea that human purposes are the only purposes with weight and worth and meaning is manifestly absurd.”