“I had a professor in medical school who used to say, ‘Happy is the man who has found his work—but of course the addict who has found a quart jar of heroin is happy, too.’ One kind of addiction is approved by society, Mr. Weer, and the other is not, but both destroy their victims.”
― Peace
― Peace
“Because people don’t like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”
― Making Money
― Making Money
“Now that she had got over the surprise, there was something offensive about this lack of reaction. It was like someone opening a door just before your battering ram hit it; suddenly you were running through the building and not certain how to stop.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
“The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics”
― Childhood’s End
― Childhood’s End
“PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? “I don’t know about the world, not much; but in my part of the world I could make little miracles for ordinary people,” Granny replied sharply. “And I never wanted the world—just a part of it, a small part that I could keep safe, that I could keep away from storms. Not the ones of the sky, you understand: there are other kinds.”
― The Shepherd's Crown
― The Shepherd's Crown
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