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it’s better if their possessions are made by hand instead of by machine; something about the process of creation flavors the inanimate,
But love, curiosity, leadership—those are equally important, or they wouldn’t exist. Nature abhors a vacuum. Nothing without purpose has been made.”
he prefers the company of books to the company of people. Maybe there’s something … wrong with him.
You can’t skip to the end of the story just because you’re tired of being in the middle. You’d never survive.”
Growing up was something that was supposed to happen to other people. Not to him. Never to him.
sometimes being the one who etches the lines in the façade is as important as choosing something already weathered and worn.
Their past is littered with the unburied bodies of the people they chose never to become.
exhausted from her own efforts to become something more than a consequence.

