Our genesis sounds more like a bad joke than the actual founding of a nation: One stormy night centuries ago, a pirate, a rabbi, and a Santero escaped some battle together and watched in awe as the island of San Madrigal arose from the
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“apatheia”
― Empire of Silence
― Empire of Silence
“I guess maybe you just strike me as a decent sort, and I’d rather this particular job went to an asshole.”
― Mickey7
― Mickey7
“Reacher worked on the principle that you should eat when you can so that you won’t have to when you can’t.”
― The Secret
― The Secret
“Eating’s gross, isn’t it? In the abstract, I mean. When you’re used to hyperspace recharging stations, to sunlight and cosmic rays, when most of the beauty you’ve known lies in a great machine’s heart, it’s hard to see the appeal of using bones that poke from spit-coated gums to mash things that grew in dirt into a paste that will fit down the wet tube connecting your mouth to the sack of acid under your heart.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Another and necessary kind of courage, which he has come to understand by reading adventure novels, is to know yourself for what you really are, accept what that is, and correct those habits and attitudes that need to be corrected. You can’t be a hero if you run away from either the enemy or the truth of yourself.”
― The Forest of Lost Souls
― The Forest of Lost Souls
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