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"How to know if a book is somewhat interesting to you:
You find yourself literally screaming at a certain plot point,
"PLEASE BE (redacted), PLEASE BE (redacted)...................NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
I had to pause the audiobook and have an emotion." — Sep 16, 2024 07:05PM
"How to know if a book is somewhat interesting to you:
You find yourself literally screaming at a certain plot point,
"PLEASE BE (redacted), PLEASE BE (redacted)...................NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
I had to pause the audiobook and have an emotion." — Sep 16, 2024 07:05PM
The Humans
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And let us consider this: what if there actually is a meaning to human life? And what if—humor me—life on Earth is something not just to fear and ridicule but also to cherish? What then?
“Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“It wasn’t as if I’d grewn up in Los Angeles - I’d seen plenty of farms in my day. But never had I seen a place that made the tightness in my chest relax. The order in the rows of trees and the dark green of the lush grass beneath them soothed me like a hand brushing against my forehead.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
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