“The problem with epiphanies is the next day they feel like they happened to someone else. Inspiration will get you nowhere in life.”
― A Working Theory of Love
― A Working Theory of Love
“Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.”
― A Working Theory of Love
― A Working Theory of Love
“Montana is the hostess, a pretty, pleasantly blank-looking high-school-age girl. It’s not profound blankness—just the vacancy of youth. A certain position of the head, a set of the eyes, all of which can be transformed by twenty-two or twenty-five or twenty-seven, her eyes sharper, head tilted down into life, ready for impact. She just needs something terrible to happen to her, and then needs to do something terrible to someone else. After that, she’s all set.”
― A Working Theory of Love
― A Working Theory of Love
“The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system.”
― The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
― The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
“The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals? Never mind that memory rigged the game, airbrushed the flaws from its contestants, while the present had to shuffle into the spotlight unaided, all pockmarked with mundanities and baggy with annoyances.”
― Spoonbenders
― Spoonbenders
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