inexplicably. I felt like a skittish rabbit. This was noteworthy, as I usually felt like an optimistic octopus.
“That’s the human brain,” Attavio VI said. “It creates patterns when there aren’t any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It’s in the design of the brain itself. It’s primed to lie.” “And primed to believe the lie.”
― The Collapsing Empire
― The Collapsing Empire
“But I happen to not be . . . just gay. I’m gay and straight? It’s great, I don’t even know what it would be like to not be attracted to a person because of their gender. To me, you’re the weird one.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“We walk on the graves of our unborn selves, the futures we never got to live, and some of those people wouldn’t get along very well with the ones we actually decided to be.”
― Chimera
― Chimera
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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