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I was trying to give her space to go through whatever she needed to go through, but it felt like I was losing her. I was behaving as if I didn’t care, when every fiber inside me wanted to reach out to her and shake her and ask what the hell was happening.
“My point is that these days people barely trust a twenty-seven-year-old to cook their burger, never mind land on the moon. Everything needs to be vetted by a million committees, and we’re afraid of practically everything. We’re just not willing to accept risk anymore, and it’s killing this country.”
“Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom.
Our grandfathers stormed the beaches of Normandy to protect our freedom. And now, because we’re afraid and not willing to accept personal risk, we’re giving up those same freedoms that they fought and died for. We’re giving away our freedom because we’re scared.” He had a good point. Damon nodded. “You can’t protect freedom by giving it away.”
“‘If you decide to use fire in battle, make sure that anything you need yourself isn’t flammable.’”
“Sometimes things break apart,” read the message, “so that better things can come together.” Below this was the attribution: “Marilyn Monroe.”
