You think I’m perfect?”He didn’t look away. Didn’t look bashful or even nervous. Just stared at her, like she’d asked him if Luna orbited the Earth. Then he leaned over and brushed a kiss against her forehead.“Just sort of,” he said. “You know. On a good day (Marissa Meyer, Winter)
A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my body was a thing I only came to realize once I was alone and all other voices dropped away (Stephen King, Duma Key)
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical (Marc Bloch)
What are we, in this boundless and glowing world? – Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
It’s so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not ()
If we read, we shall renew our mind (Lailah Gifty Akita)
Technically, you don’t pay me.And technically, most of what I do is “think.”I…rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I’m better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon – Howard Tayler, Resident Mad Scientist
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time (Ernest Hemingway)
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree (Paul A. Volcker)
To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground (Alyssa Tillmon)