Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

by Chuck Wendig

There was always someone like that out there, ready to ride their hate like a horse and gallop right over anybody who wasn’t like them, who had what they wanted. Someone always wanted to bathe in blood. Because hate like that didn’t stay quiet.

I’ve never felt that the presence of God and the science of humankind were incompatible. It is enough for me to feel that God has given us the skills to decipher His or Her or Their universe accordingly—science is just how we map that creation, how we understand it, and how we use it to better ourselves.”

The internet—the saying went that a lie traveled halfway around the world by the time the truth got its pants on, and the internet only made that faster. The internet gave wings to every lie, while the truth was stuck on the tarmac.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. —Eliezer Yudkowsky

There are a lot of things in life you can’t control, but the food you cook is one of the few things you can, and this gives you a real sense of power over a huge aspect of your life. —Joshua Weissman, An Unapologetic Cookbook

At heart, what we give to the world is our service, and what we give to ourselves is our purpose.

Our service and our purpose must be two circles perfectly overlapping. What we give to the world must be the work that defines us. Meaning we give ourselves to the world to make it better. We don’t just work to work. But we don’t just let our destiny die on the vine.”

Until we disentangle fundamental needs and rights from someone’s ability to charge us for it, capitalism will continue to throw us over the cliff’s edge. This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but a ka-ching.

“My dear, nothing matters. Literally nothing. It’s all just salt and stardust. The meaning that life has is only the meaning we are fit to give it.”

Grief is like a cut in a strange place. You never know when you’re going to bump into it, make it hurt again.”