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“In the end, all that gauging and watching, Harley didn’t know what to look for any better than Babe did. In the end, all Harley knew was it was a thing a person could do.”

“‘Fifty years old. Waiting to figure out what you want? Don’t nobody know. Better that way. Don’t get it, don’t care. If you knew it and got it, you’d just want something else.’”

“It’s what ‘married’ means. You keep somebody around. Hate to think what you thought it meant.”

"Inshallah - God willing. It sounds like fudge to her, something that should make her worry. Maybe you'll see them, maybe you won't. Who knows? God decides.
But for her father, inshallah expresses the most certainty a person can have. Because God is good. And with God's will, you will be with the people you love."

“‘The project holds up a mirror to the world’s failures and the world’s response is to break the mirror. We exist in spite of the world, Lo, not because of it.’”

“But his feet were more connected to his heart more directly than his head, and they did as she said.”

“How often stories change our perceptions, and how often we don’t notice it.”

“As the historian Jan Sapp explained to me, the concept of symbiosis behaves like a prism through which our own social values are often dispersed.”

“They reminded me that it matters what stories we use to make sense of the world.”

“and each meeting formed a step up a long stairway, which led somewhere into the distance, gradually lifting the people higher and higher. But it’s top remained invisible.”

“Regardless, imagination forms part of the everyday business of inquiring. Science isn’t an exercise in cold-blooded rationality. Scientists are - and always have been - emotional, creative, intuitive, whole human beings, asking questions about a world that was never made to be catalogues and systematized.”

“To talk about individuals made no sense anymore. Biology the study of living organisms - had transformed into ecology - the study of the relationships between living organisms.”

“I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it’s not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions.”

“For although it is hard to read children, it is still harder to teach a man to be good.”

“I stare back at them, wishing that I hadn’t needed to create an unsolvable mystery in order to solve the mystery of myself. But I promise myself - and them - now that I have authored an authentic self into existence, I will write a perfect ending. “

“She often discussed life with her neighbors, spoke a great deal about everything; but all, herself included, only complained ; no one explained why life was so hard and burdensome.”

“Because she liked it, of course she liked it, she could not tell the difference between beauty and a joke.”

“He did not want to live in the world he had made, but when it came right down to it, did any of us?”

“Where was the fiction? Distance, arrangement, emphasis, proportion? Did they only become untrue when they entered someone else’s life and butter, trivial, up against its bigness?”

“She opened the portal. ‘Are we all just going to keep doing this talk we die?’ people were asking each other.”

“Everything was shifting, changing, and Cadie no longer wanted to ignore it. She wanted to stare the future in the face without blinking.”

“Her belief that she had saved Garrett had been her armor. Stripped of that mythology, her story had no hero, no quest, no righteous sacrifice, no happily ever after.”

“The intricate lace carved by the beetles would remind her every day how magnificent the adversary had been. How beautiful destruction could be.”

“But we, we decide nothing : the bland Opportunity
presents itself, and we embrace it, - we are so grateful
When something happens which is not directly War ;
For we think - although of course, now, we very seldom
Clearly think -
That the other side of War is Peace.”

“We are clever, - we are as clever as monkeys ; and some of us
Have intellect, which is our danger, for we lack intelligence
And have forgotten instinct.”

“It is no sin against love to exalt people even to the level of God, on the contrary, it is an expression of it. What we must never do is humiliate people. Better to address someone as ‘my angel’ than ‘you fool’, even if men are more like fools that they are angels.”

“Sneering at little people just because they are little does no honour to the human heart.”

“Life is tough for all of us. In my serious moments, I am struck by the thought that people are being illogical when they are repelled by death. So far as my understanding goes, life consists exclusively of horrors, squabbles and banalities, sometimes all at once and sometimes one after the other”

“It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.”

“Animals were not to be exploited, my dad explained. Neither were people. This had to do with our fundamental concern for harmony, and should always be followed.”