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1 " They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people. "
― Dean Koontz , Elsewhere
2 " Before she risked getting a dog, she also had to find out how she would deal with the loss of Snowball when he died. If losing a mouse wrecked her, then a dog’s death would absolutely destroy her, no doubt about it, none at all. "
3 " All I want is a home, books, and the peace to read them. "
4 " The mind and the heart—intellect and emotions, facts and feelings. They’re both important. But to live well, we need to make decisions based on logic and reason modified by emotion. If we’re guided only or even largely by emotion . . . Well, the heart often wants what it doesn’t really need, and sometimes it wants what it shouldn’t have, something with the potential to ruin your life. It wants something so intensely that we find it easy to do what the heart wants even if we know it’s reckless. "
5 " no one here ever took the work of Karl Marx or Friedrich Nietzsche or Sigmund Freud seriously. So there had been no Lenin, no Soviet Union, no communism or fascism; and two hundred million people who, elsewhere, had been killed by those regimes, had not been killed here. "
6 " this was an America where fascists didn’t pretend to be antifascists, didn’t conceal their faces behind black masks, operated openly and boldly; this was an America ruled by brute intimidation, harassment, and violence. "
7 " The romantic fragrances of yellowing paper "
8 " The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need. "
9 " a magic egg swaddled in a nest, waiting for its mystery to hatch, and the night grew yet darker. "
10 " By relocating from this world to the one where Jeffy and Amity yearned for her, she’d be taking an action that would spawn other parallel lives for herself, of which she, in this incarnation, had no knowledge. Other than her husband and daughter, whose lives would be affected by her action, how many others would live additional lives that branched from her action, and did it matter? "
11 " convivial "
12 " onerous "
13 " truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions. "
14 " If we’re guided only or even largely by emotion . . . Well, the heart often wants what it doesn’t really need, and sometimes it wants what it shouldn’t have, something with the potential to ruin your life. It wants something so intensely that we find it easy to do what the heart wants even if we know it’s reckless. "
15 " Nobody wanted to read sucky novels, and those people who wanted deep meaning didn’t want it in every damn story "
16 " Ms. Kate DiCamillo, "
17 " you were incarnate as yourself in numerous timelines, living many lives. "
18 " all of time—past, present, and future—was complete in the instant of the big bang. Therefore the past and the future were contained in the present. If the future of this timeline was here to be known right now, there might be people gifted enough to see what most could not. "
19 " if he had been foolish enough to trust the media to help him blow the whistle, he would be dead by now. "
20 " As a man who felt that he had been born too late, Jeffy was often amazed at what passed for high art in this low age. "