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“There are seven billion living people, and about ninety-eight billion dead people.”
“There are about fourteen dead people for every living person,”
in freedom, most people find sin.”
“Do you know,” he asked in a delicious accent, “what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?” “No?” I said. “He called out to his fellow monks, ‘Come quickly: I am tasting the stars.’
I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.”
“That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of it—is temporary?”
I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
she was loved deeply but not widely.
the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
