Laura

“Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It’s not the pain that’s unendurable. It’s the hopelessness. It’s the hopelessness that makes you reckless.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shadow Me

“On August 29th, 1949, when the Soviets conducted their own successful nuclear test, our love for the bomb began to lessen. Perhaps it was foolhardy to think that we alone could hold fire in a fennel stalk. At 5:29 a.m. on that July morning, all we saw was the future when, in fact, we should have remembered how Zeus chained Prometheus to a mountaintop and sent an eagle to eat his liver daily. Night after night, his liver regrew, and day after day, the eagle ate it.”
― B.J. Hollars, Harbingers

“Oppenheimer always chose the more beautiful path. "Science is not everything," he once remarked, "but science is very beautiful.”
― B.J. Hollars, Harbingers