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Being old isn’t that bad. Except for your body, your eyesight, your sense of balance, and waking up each morning feeling like you’ve been nailed in place.
“The mustache doesn’t deserve subtlety, Nedd,” she said. “It deserves a mercy killing.”
responded to the stabby-stabby motions of a good forking.
What you experience is yours to cherish. Each sight a gemstone for your personal collection, light crystallized in your mind, made solid and captured to forever cherish.”
What is a gift, if given so grudgingly?
I don’t think most people want to do what’s right. That’s what makes doing the right thing noble. It’s a conscious choice. A hard one. If it were easy, then why would we respect it so much?”
“For you, everything is hard. If an opportunity presents itself, you must snatch it or lose it to someone fiercer. You don’t have time to think, because if you think, you starve.
“This makes it difficult for you when dealing with those who have lived in privilege,” he said. “We spend our lives learning to plan. Often, those in power stay in power because of such luxuries—it is not that they are smarter or more capable, but that they’ve had the opportunity to think about tomorrow, not just today.”
menagerie of misfits.”
a woman had to orient the world as best she could according to the way she saw things.
Empathy for an enemy’s pain was good, but you couldn’t let that lead you into the fallacy of accepting their actions.
The love of the oppressed found the souls of the broken, and the result was light.
