What if I don't believe in magic, Finn? That's stupid, how can you not believe in magic, Coop? It's everywhere.
You did say something I found offensive yesterday. What was that? I believe the word you used was friends.
Do you know the story? No, Finn, but I have a feeling you're going to tell me.
The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old...
The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone.
Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man man man man Give yourself up to this art where the sublime does not exclude charm and brilliancy does not blur the nuance it is now or n...
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp
When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]
How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you.
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.
The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
Leila. Schoolgirls are like sports cars. They're nice to look at, but they're impractical. In the end, they don't do what you need them to do." I had to stifle my smile, he looked so serious. Then I stole a glance back at the lithe-limbed shadows ben...
And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and driving under an overpass, and for just that second there is a profound, powerful sense of reprieve- the utter silence of non-rai...
Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Satan time to entangle you more tightly. But if you cry...
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
