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1 " If emotions were created for social creatures, did they cease to exist as soon as society disappeared? "
― Edward W. Robertson , The Breakers Series #1-3 (Breakers #1-3)
2 " The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you'd always be okay. "
3 " The dinosaurs had all died, too, along with their dinosaur dreams. A world capable of such genocidal indifference didn't deserve its own existence. Walt wanted to watch it wither, to crumble into shit and dirt, fertilizer for a future that would one day crumble itself. "
4 " The old masters said if you met another Buddha on the road, you should kill him. All reality is an illusion: if you think you've found the incarnation of enlightenment, destroy that illusion on the spot. But the real world is real. Therefore, if you meet a bandit on the road, you should kill him. Anyone who seeks to make a bad world worse is a monster and an alien. "
5 " Over the last few decades, that America of old had been stolen, snatched up by nanny state, soft-headed do-gooders on the left and wealth-obsessed sociopaths on the right who clearly believed their money meant they belonged to a superior species. They'd leveraged that money to make the laws reflect their first-class status. "
6 " Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it's disappointing. "
7 " She was tired of hearing about guns. It was all these people thought about. Carrying them. Using them. Fighting over them. Such stupid things. Anyone could use them. Anyone could pull a trigger from across a field. They rewarded cowardice. They made people think that violence was a quick and clean and easy thing. If the men on the boat had to kill with their hands, not one in ten would have the stomach for it. "
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9 " To lock these men up or threaten them would be no more effective than imprisoning the milkweed or shouting at the kudzu. "
10 " That was the other advantage to walking. It gave you time to think. To explore things down to the roots. If a voyage was a transition from one place to another, it made sense for it to take place over a transition in time, too. Cars, planes, they obliterated that transition, making a separation in space less real. Less meaningful. It removed the chance for growth. No wonder everyone had been so damn confused and angry before. "
11 " Everyone has an opinion at every time. When they don't share, it's because they're polite or scared. "
12 " Tristan went to the bathroom to wash the blood and Neosporin from her hands. She couldn't stand when they were dirty. A bit of grime, and she hated to move them, let alone use them, letting them dangle from her wrists until she could insert them under running water and return them to normalcy. She "
13 " So what do you know now?" He shrugged. "That you can learn to do just about anything. Most things aren't that hard if you put in the time. "
14 " Life could be so easy when you let it. All you had to do was decide Hey, this is what I want, and I'm going to take my shot. That's all it took. That was the entire secret right there. "
15 " He tried to find an internet radio feed for the Mariners and discovered the games had been postponed. For the Mariners, that was probably a mercy. "
16 " Why couldn't all cities post a map at the entrance? How had anyone found any strange place before GPS? Before they had cell phones to call for directions the instant they got lost? It was a wonder the entire human race hadn't taken the wrong left one day and wound up dead in a ditch. A brick-colored church with two "
