Katie says, “What do you know that I don’t?
You could make yourself a little crazy, even certifiable, if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable.
Libby hears her name wrapped in the louder sound, attenuated and distorted – “Liiiiibeeeee.
The thing to understand is that you have to do what you have to do, always and without complaint. That’s the way.
Although he has perhaps breathed in hundreds of billions – even trillions – of programmed archaea that are carrying longevity-fostering genes from many species, perhaps it is a mistake to regard the breach of the organism-isolation labs as an existential crisis.
Although Woody had studied and learned a great deal, he was well aware that there were vast.
The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.
Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light.
What’re you – Jane Hawk?” “Who’s Jane Hawk?” “This kick-ass rogue FBI agent in these novels my mom likes. Even if you were Jane Hawk, it won’t work the way you say. It never will.
The undulant road winds across hills, down into hollows where mist slithers through the darkness like a procession of spirits proceeding toward their fate. The mountains, worn low by millennia of weather, offer no steep palisades, only rolling slopes that suggest that the landscape was inspired by the female form.
When you grow up, Jonah, women are gonna break your heart so often, you lose count.
Increasingly, everywhere in the world, people are not governed by those who wish to serve them, but ruled by those mad with power and determined to have total submission. They seem ever more fiercely inspired to greater ruthlessness. They call their hatred justice and see it as a virtue.
There was a time to take refuge in the arms of those you loved, and there was a time to stand up to great evil and be not bowed. If you didn’t know the difference, then you were doomed to perish about two-thirds of the way through the story, when the narrative needed a jolt of violence and emotion.
TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER.
He had been greeted by a black screen with one word in white block letters: Tragedy.
But it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, that matter can arise from energy, that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined.
The blow she took from Katie can be forced down a memory hole now that this new offender gives her an opportunity.
My intellect is God-given. I’ve a sacred obligation to use it.
Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart’s yearning and the mind’s keen intuition. In the absence of love, the heart might be deceitful above all things, but profound love was an antivenin that cured deceit.
Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity.