You just use the future to escape the present.” I guess that made sense.
Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
I don’t think she ever said anything that wasn’t an attempt at undermination.” “Undermining.” “Thank you, Annoying McMasterGrammician.” “Grammarian,” I said. “Oh my God I’m going to kill you!” But she was laughing.
Das wahre Grauen ist nicht, Angst zu haben; es ist, keine andere Wahl zu haben.
This is a man who once constructed a bong using only the barrel of an air rifle, a ripe pear, and an eight-by-ten glossy photograph of Anna Kournikova. Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you’ve got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass toward us and shouted something. “We don’t speak Dutch,” Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: “The beautiful couple is beautiful.
Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata.
Life is a great gift and if we know how, we can make it great. But sometimes life takes us by surprise. We don’t know for how long we’re going to be here or the ones around us. So make time for the ones you love, those who are precious to you, those ones that you live for and those ones that make living worth while. OKAY?
Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We’re all just side effects, right?” “‘Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,’” I said, quoting AIA.
What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future.
The combined weight of the earth’s bacteria is 400 billion tons. They overwhelm us.
Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn’t have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly an American Indian or a First Person or an Indigenous Person, and they did not have Latin or any other kind of written language then. So did Ovid matter because he was Ovid or because he lived in Ancient Rome?
You missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it’s over be present out there.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
An ambulance, lights and sirens blaring, sped past us, going in the opposite direction, towards the school, and for an instant, I felt a nervous excitement and thought, it could be someone I know. I almost wished it was someone I knew, to give new form and depth to the sadness I felt.
The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.
God, a lot happened since you lost your mind. Is that rude to say?” “Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.
No siempre estaba atrapada dentro de mi yo, o de mis yos. No solo estaba loca.
I knew these halls so well – and finally it was starting to feel like they knew me, too.