Gabriela Frank > Gabriela's Quotes

“So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there's an unimaginably massive, infinite number of universes - a multiverse- where everything that can happen will happen”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“Creatures who overlay story on everything, but especially their own lives, and in so doing, can imbue a cold, random, sometime brutal existence, with fabricated meaning.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“We don’t have an intelligence problem. We have a compassion problem. That, more than any other single factor, is what’s driving us toward extinction.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“it’s very hard to accept the challenge of contributing to the world with one more person and being responsible for helping this person become someone good.”
― Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

“What if, by having a child, I destroy the possibility of ever truly being alone?”
― Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

“Should I have a child, their greenhouse gas emissions will cause roughly fifty square meters of sea ice to melt every year that they are alive.”
― Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

“I can celebrate the idea that to have a child means having faith that the world will change, and more importantly, committing to being a part of the change yourself.”
― Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

“There are so many ways in which my journey toward Thwaites taught me how to mother—or, at least, how to invest a whole lot of time and energy into a project without having any idea how things will turn out.”
― Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

“I can’t imagine explaining “sleep” to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Talent is grace made visible.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Anchor yourself to one spot, my friend, and you’ll eventually grow contemptuous of it.”
― Drew Magary, The Postmortal

“I think most of us have our personality, our character, plainly etched in a wordless language on the skins of our faces, as obvious as a bleeding heart on a sleeve.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I can’t draw you out of your anguish by arguing that it isn’t there. I can’t talk truth by telling favorable lies.”
― John Wiswell, Wearing the Lion

“Is the love of my love my hated? Or is the love of my love my loved?”
― Austin Taylor, Notes on Infinity

“The whole point of their hookups was to provide release, but Shane only felt more tangled up each time.”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry