“She came to her feet and there was a click inside her like a key inside a lock. The room was perfect as a circle now. Like a bell. Like the moon when it was perfect full.
Auri laughed in delight, and every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Auri laughed in delight, and every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“There have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees. The filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models. Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow ones of eagles. None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“I loved those hands, which never harmed a living thing. The pale scars and arthritic knuckles were beautiful because they signified his courage and reminded me that I must never be embittered by the cruelties inflicted on us. He suffered more than I did, and yet he loved life and the world.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
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