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1 " I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that. "
― Lewis Thomas , Fragile Species
2 " A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die. "
― Brandon Sanderson , Perfect State
3 " She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple from all the hours of piano playing, but what use was that now? For the first time she understood what real danger does to the human mind, as flat white fear froze the coils of her brain. "
― Kate Furnivall , The Jewel of St. Petersburg (The Russian Concubine, #0)
