Years crawl by but once they get behind you in a big old stack, it’s amazing how they seem to have done it in the blink of an eye.
“What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful of hateful, self-important parasites, preying upon and paralyzing everyone else. As soon as those people left, the paralysis ended.”
― Emergency Skin
― Emergency Skin
“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
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“The sense of urgency just wasn’t there. Also, you may have noticed, I don’t care.”
― All Systems Red
― All Systems Red
“You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I’m a pessimist.”
― All Systems Red
― All Systems Red
“We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves—they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling, accidental universe tolerable.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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