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101 " The older I get, the less I understand. I love my son. He means everything to me. And yet, I can’t escape the feeling that I’m failing him. Sending him off to the wolves with nothing but the crumbs of my uncertain perspective. "
― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter
102 " Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. "
103 " Estoy buscando un grano de arena en una playa infinita. "
104 " Ésa es la belleza de la juventud. Hay una levedad que permea en todo porque todavía no has tomado esas malditas decisiones, no te has comprometido con ningún sendero, y el camino delante de ti se abre en disyuntivas puras, limpias, de potencial ilimitado. Amo "
105 " Even as those five words cross my mind, I’m not exactly certain what they mean, or how to begin to consider their full weight. So I say it again. I try it on. See how it fits. This is not my world. "
106 " The box isn’t all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll find. "
107 " We have fumbling, groping, backseat-of-the-car, unprotected-because-who-gives-a-fuck, protons-smashing-together sex. "
108 " As long as my people are with me, I'm ready for anything. "
109 " Because I see myself, first and foremost, as a man pursuing answers to fundamental questions. Now, if the people around me”—he gestures at his students who have begun to crowd in—“are sharp enough to absorb knowledge by sheer proximity to me…great. But the passing on of knowledge, as it were, doesn’t interest me. All that matters is the science. The research. "
110 " Sure, I flip people off in traffic on occasion, but that’s just Chicago. "
111 " So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there's an unimaginably massive, infinite number of universes - a multiverse- where everything that can happen will happen "
112 " there’s a stunning quality to the light as it moves toward evening—polarized and golden—that I can only describe as loss. Robert Frost’s gold that cannot stay. "
113 " Pensé que apreciaba cada momento, pero sentado aquí en el frío, sé que di todo por sentado. ¿Y cómo podría no haberlo hecho? Hasta que todo se cae, no tenemos idea de lo que realmente tenemos, de lo precaria y perfectamente que todo se mantiene unido. "
114 " You're saying that, out of an infinite number of realities, I intentionally picked this shithole? "
115 " She’s cut off by a burst of fire and a muted report not quite as loud as a naked gunshot. "
116 " Look,” I say, “I’ve tried to explain to you how the box works, but forget all that for a minute. Here’s the thing. The box isn’t all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll find. "
117 " I don’t want to spend the rest of my life wandering down this never-ending tunnel.” “I won’t let that happen.” “How?” “I don’t know yet.” “But you’re working on it?” “Yes. I’m working on it.” “And we’re not lost.” We are so fucking lost. Literally adrift in the nothing space between universes. “We’re not lost.” “Good.” She smiles. “Then I’ll postpone freaking out. "
118 " we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country. "
119 " A terrifying spin on the Prisoner’s Dilemma that asks, Is it possible to outthink yourself? "
120 " It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was meant to be living? "