Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Uda says that not doing something can be the best choice.
Best way to keep a secret is to not have any.”
It's more comfortable to prolong the mystery than to risk hearing the answer I dread.”
I thought you could talk it to death
“That’s another case of rumor running away from itself.”
“Someplace friendly,” he said weakly. “Filled with…warm people.”
More longing, and more loneliness.”
“Nihilism is impossible to avoid on a long enough time scale. There’s a good reason humans don’t live forever.”
“Easier to ignore, perhaps,”
“Fate and irony seem to be close cousins.”
“Likewise. But I’m finally going home.”
and few things scared him more than a person who had a mind to govern others.

