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Mistakes don't happen in a single, decisive moment, they unfold slowly through a lifetime.
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That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.
Nobody should ever forget the debt of eternal gratitude they owe to whoever it was who first got them to read Herman Melville properly.
The definition of a page-turner really ought to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.
No matter how bad things get, most people still care about something. That's what makes them so fucking sad, and that's what makes them beautiful.
Everything has its own clock, its own lifetime: stars, dogs, people, water molecules. Human beings only know one version of time, but there are thousands of others, all these parallel worlds unfolding at different rates, fast, slow, instantaneous, sidereal.
We can calmly entertain the most terrible thoughts, if we're not sure they are true.
