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The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for. They accompany me every minute of every day of my life,
“The wish to please, to charm—the desire to provoke desire—runs deep in me and seems to have been there from the beginning.”
― A Feather on the Breath of God
― A Feather on the Breath of God
“Sixteen is an intensely troublesome age. You worry about little things, can’t pinpoint where you are in any objective way, become really proficient at strange, pointless skills, and are held in thrall by inexplicable complexes. As you get older, though, through trial and error you learn to get what you need, and throw out what should be discarded. And you start to recognize (or be resigned to the fact) that since your faults and deficiencies are well nigh infinite, you’d best figure out your good points and learn to get by with what you have.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“The sound of a pen scratching in the night is a holy sound.”
― A Feather on the Breath of God
― A Feather on the Breath of God
“Cheng Xin now recalled the strange feeling she had experienced each time she had looked at Van Gogh’s painting. Everything else in the painting—the trees that seemed to be on fire, and the village and mountains at night—showed perspective and depth, but the starry sky above had no three-dimensionality at all, like a painting hanging in space. Because the starry night was two-dimensional. How could Van Gogh have painted such a thing in 1889? Did he, having suffered a second breakdown, truly leap across five centuries”
― Death's End
― Death's End
“On the day of the universe's Last Judgment, two humans and a robot belonging to the Earth and Trisolaran civilizations embraced each other in ecstasy.”
― Death's End
― Death's End
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