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I guess we're all forced to make decisions- some of them pan out, others don't. Who knows which ones we'll regret?

What you start out fighting for is not necessarily what you end up fighting for.

The tricks we play on ourselves are almost always more damaging than the tricks others play on us.

I come here to remember what I don't want to forget and to forget what I don't want to remember.

Finally! A book that speaks to me!!!

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them.

Because it was, in part through reading and writing that I found a kind of salvation from the dark

Zorn has such a welcome touch for the exacting word in a sentence. The Vibes hospital cafe name is 'ambitious', Sam has no 'template' for his new situation, "The novelty of catastrophe".

Thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and feeling you're losing time.

Dead reckoning: calculating one's position by estimating direction and distance rather than landmarks. Used at sea often.

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than arrive anywhere. .. We want to make good time but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.

Is 'alivest' a word?

Tensions disappear on roads like this.

If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead

..a clandestine relationship has to be defended: it's fragile and precious

There are many ways in which life's little centre can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.

We are risen apes, not fallen angels.

Only song needs to soar in a church; anything fancier is human arrogance disguised as faith.

Gravity itself will be upset and objects float in existential hesitation. But no. The fields remain still, the road continues to lie hard and fixed, and the morning sun does not stop shining with unblinking colours.

Surely the fields will notice,they will rise, dust themselves, and come closer to take a concerned look. The road will curl up like a snake and make sad pronouncements. The sun will darken with desolation.

Everything is in its place, and time is moving with its usual discretion. Then, in an instant, without warning, a little boy tripped everything up.

Emerveillement

I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that ai may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. Pierre Aronnax on Nef Land

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.