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“When he left the hardware store with the order inside his suitcase, he felt that all moments of happiness, large and small, deserved to be projected into a town square.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Order the Universe

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“D treated himself to a coffee and jotted down on the napkin: 'Every life has its own moon landing'.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Order the Universe

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’

‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Words tell stories. Specifically, the history of those words - how they came into use, and how their meaning morphed into what they mean today - tell us just as much about a people, if not more, than any other kind of historical artefact.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“When D saw Neil Armstrong take his first step on the moon, he thought that anything was possible -- all it took was the right attitude and the right outfit.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Order the Universe

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.”
― Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse