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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

My real heroes, anyway aren't the people doing things,; the real heroes are people NOTICING things, paying attention.

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

The marks humans leave are too often scars

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy fight with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human conciousness, a victim—as you will be—of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

In a way that would have been dangerous if danger retained its relevance

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.