The loss of a trowel is cause for much wailing. But if a man falls, and his trowel remains, men are secretly relieved. The next one to drop his trowel can pick up the extra one and continue working, without incurring debt.”
“That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“But what worse fate could there be? To remember love and know it is unattainable? To know love wanders somewhere light-years and light-years distant, ever knowing it is forever out of reach? Forever hidden? So I pick up another book.”
― A Short Stay in Hell
― A Short Stay in Hell
“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“I must start at the beginning – a beginning so long ago that its horizon is a vanishing point at the convergence of two Euclidian lines that would be parallel by any human measure.”
― A Short Stay in Hell
― A Short Stay in Hell
“And it’s all because God, or the Lord she talked about, can’t even protect Himself anymore.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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