I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo, but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.”ģ6. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”ģ5. We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. “Maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass - our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. “It’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes.”ģ3. “I don’t know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. “I’ve never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I’ve never seen her eyes before.”ģ1. “I think the future deserves our faith.”ģ0. Just that everything except the last thing is.”Ģ9. “I’m not saying that everything is survivable. “Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I’d survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.”Ģ8. “Maybe she had sat here in the cacophonous darkness and felt some kind of desperation take her over, and maybe she found it impossible to unthink the thought of death.”Ģ7. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.”Ģ5. “The town was paper, but the memories were not. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”Ģ4. “If it doesn’t happen to you, it doesn’t happen at all.”Ģ3. “Once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable.”Ģ2. “And when I say that her hand brushes up against mine, and I just grab hers because it feels like there is less to ruin now.”Ģ1. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.”Ģ0. “Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. “Nothing is as boring as other people’s dreams.”ġ9. “We can hear others, and we can travel to them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system like so many leaves of grass - but the game makes me wonder whether can really ever fully become another.”ġ8. “This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”ĩ. “I imagine it is hard to go back once you’ve felt the continents in your palm.”Ĩ. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.”ħ. The first shall be the last the last shall be the first the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. “Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. “I knew these halls so well - and finally it was starting to feel like they knew me, too.”Ħ. I’ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”Ĥ. All the things paper-thing and paper-frail. “Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. I like that I can drive fifteen hours from home without the world changing too much.”ģ. “What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.”Ģ. I didn’t want to, but I did.”Īll page numbers come from ebook version.1. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. “Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement.
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