- “...only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”
- “It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
- “that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
- "My thoughts are stars that I cannot fathom into constellations."
- “People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.”
- “The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
- “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”
- We have this weird thing in the world where we get insulted for not what we do but for who we are.
feb 25 2012 ∞
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