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1 " He could imagine how nice it would be to not understand. To see one's microcosm as the macrocosm. To focus a meter beyond one's own nose. "
― Hugh Howey , Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (The Bern Saga, #1)
2 " She would’ve been torn between acting cool and nonchalant and wanting to geek out over the experience. "
3 " Here, kids celebrated whoever got away with the worst behavior while shunning anyone attempting to do the right thing. "
4 " The mind rejects the very things worth knowing. "
5 " They were not battling a trained warrior—this was a politician. Pity stirred, then recoiled from her rising wrath. This was the sort of beast that killed with calculations, concocting war and disease and wiping out millions from the safety of a council meeting. She "
6 " another orphan officially joined their unlikely crew. "
7 " I may just live long enough to be killed, "
8 " What they consider to be the ‘natural’ order must be maintained. That pursuit is so much higher than all else—it makes lesser ethical problems vanish in their eyes. "
9 " they never got into technology. Not because their brains weren’t capable of seizing it, but because their lives were too brutal to invest in it. "
10 " If it’s worth finding, don’t ever stop looking. "
11 " a cacophony of clanging and yelling—poverty’s soundtrack. "
12 " Overhead, tangles of wires knotted together in a grand display of unplanned infrastructure. "
13 " all they encountered was the fabric of the cosmos. So they ripped it open—creating a tear in space. "
14 " Waterfalls. Hundreds, maybe thousands of them plummeting into the void. "
15 " She just wanted an escape from the abuse. "
16 " Liberated organisms do not decorate themselves with chains. "
17 " it isn’t fair, but if you think life has a bad reputation for that, the military puts it to shame. "
18 " a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it. "
19 " the rapid bonds foreign situations could weld. "
20 " her down. She was limited by biology and her flightsuit. Dwelling on her own constraints gave Molly another crazy idea. She recognized the old Tchung ship designs they were up against. If the missiles "