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81 " We’re foolish when we’re young. We’re blind to the truth. "
― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar
82 " It’s the idea that if only we hadn’t been interrupted, then we could’ve accomplished our magnum opus... but in the end, we come to realize that the interruption is the work itself. "
83 " And yet sometimes we become the person we most dread. Or maybe we dread most the person we know we are to become. "
84 " We think, and therefore we cannot just be. "
85 " I’m afraid of a world without meaning. I’m afraid of our capacity for self-deception. I’m afraid of being without being. I’m afraid of dying alone. "
86 " We must have a global mind. Only when we stick together will we defeat the forces against us. "
87 " A man can grow accustomed to anything if he lives with it long enough. "
88 " The Cambodians believe the eyes never change, you can go through an infinite number of reincarnations, but your eyes will always remain the same. It’s how we recognize our friends and enemies across time. "
89 " A river cannot forget. It remembers every person who has ever put their foot in it. It’s like a book of all time. "
90 " Memory is a weapon too powerful for any one man to yield... I have come to realize that forgetting is our greatest gift. "
91 " Just listen to the story. Don’t be so critical all the time. It isn’t good for you. "
92 " Nothing is decided when you’re born. Everything is still possible. If you decide to change your life, you can. "
93 " We must not let others do work we should be doing. "
94 " There are many ways to alter the course of time. "
95 " Entropy would eventually reign supreme. It was the beginning of the end. "
96 " Devotion, at its core, must be a kind of truth. "
97 " That night, perhaps touched by the elusive melancholy that always comes upon mothers in the silent, teardropped wake of childbirth, Elizabeth wished Emma away from the one room that they now floated in. She could hear the sea slap at the wooden sidings. They were alone. "
― Reif Larsen , The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
98 " The only person who can defeat you is you. "
99 " The ring of people who had stopped to watch were doing so not because of her enthralling acrobatics, but because of their collective awareness that this women, in that moment, could only be doing exactly what she was doing. The laws of the universe determined it. "
100 " Life had filled her quiver with the right arrows, even when the target itself had been too far away to see. "