“Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.”
― The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
― The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
“La soledad provoca inseguridad, pero las relaciones no parecen provocar algo muy diferente. En una relación, usted puede sentirse tan inseguro como si no tuviera ninguna, o peor aún. Sólo cambian los nombres que pueda darle a su ansiedad.”
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“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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