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That doesn’t make those things unwonderful or not unique . . . It’s just that there are a lot of people doing a lot of amazing things, so eventually you get a little jaded.
“Not really. I can tell you care about what you post on there. You’re not fooling anyone. You’re a digital girl, April, in a digital world. We all know how to perform.”
Has the city that never sleeps become the city that’s too cool to notice even the most peculiar and astounding occurrences?
them. The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing.
“When you’re faced with something you don’t understand, I think the most natural thing but also the least interesting thing you can be is afraid,”
Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.
When you have beans like the ones I had, you should probably be more careful with them than I was.
One plus of the Dream was that if I stayed in it all night and didn’t wake up, I’d stay out of my nightmares.
Humans are terrible at believing reality.
but the far greater thing is what we are together, and if that isn’t protected and cherished, we are headed to a bad place.
you have and I swear I will be honest about whether it sucks.” Those people included: Patrick Rothfuss,
