Life doesn't work that way. You live with your choices and learn. You don't cheat the system.
Du kannst werden, was immer du willst. Was du dir auch in den Kopf setzt. Folge einfach deinem Herzen und lebe deine Träume. - Die guten alten Plattitüden einer ausgestorbenen Spezies.
It took Letty four tries to get her left leg through the harness. Isaiah watching her from the window. He said, You gotta lock that shit down. Lock what down? Your panic.
That prick’s still your copyeditor? Yep. He’s such a dick.
I used to. When we were real people. When we could talk about the things in our hearts. You know this is the first real conversation I’ve had in years?
Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions - our idea of reality - are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses.
Are you happy in your life?
Jack, I’m just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me.Dee—I’m not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that.You have a daughter, too. You...
Stepped forward into the red darkness, squinting at the corners in the kitchen and the living room, straining to detect the slightest pin drop of sound—a noisy breath or a clamorous heart that pounded...
You made me in your image, and now I will remake you in mine.
I’m running a battery of tests, but everything appears to have come through fully preserved.
Life is too hard and too short not to be with the one you love. So choose me.
I’m smiling on the inside.
It will be destructive at first, like all progress. Just as the industrial age ushered in two world wars. Just as Homo sapiens supplanted the Neanderthal. But would you turn back the clock on all that...
I think balance is for people who don't know why they're here.
I know it’s crazy, but I’m holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.
He stopped listening an hour ago, when he discovered he could tune out completely as long as he interjected an I hadn’t thought of it that way or Hmm, interesting every five minutes or so.
He came to lying on his back with sunlight pouring down into his face and the murmur of running water close by. There was a brilliant ache in his optic nerve, and a steady, painless throbbing at the b...
Good. She smiles. Then I’ll postpone freaking out.
Fear suddenly wore him like a glove.