“I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“So how did he imagine we would have known anything about them?’ Her husband asked.
Gloria smiled awkwardly. ‘They woke up this morning and have been chanting you name ever since.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
Gloria smiled awkwardly. ‘They woke up this morning and have been chanting you name ever since.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“Pashtuns.”
― The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
― The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
“They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertently shut them out from direct experience of life itself—and from each other.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“This is the world I'm trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.”
― Red Queen
― Red Queen
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