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1 " There are three things in this world that are meant to be dark: coffee, chocolate, and the night. "
― L.T. Vargus , Five Days Post Mortem (Violet Darger, #5)
2 " Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard specters, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again forever. "
3 " I can’t let the fact that we are a stupid, selfish, argumentative species stand in the way of scientific exploration. Of seeking out the truths of the universe. That would be… like giving up. "
4 " Sorry if I seem a bit blasé about it. My sister says I’m not allowing myself to grieve, but the reality is that there’s nothing I can do about it, and I’ve never been the type to fixate on the things I can’t change in the world. She’s a lawyer, so that concept is entirely foreign to her. In her opinion, everything is negotiable, even terminal cancer.” “Is it painful?” Darger asked, not thinking. Her mouth was running on auto-pilot while her brain wrestled with the idea of Fowles being at death’s door. "