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1 " I hate the word sorry. I hate the way it makes every problem go away and makes no-one responsible. I hate the way you can say words without actually feeling them and that people trade this currency as if its legal tender. I hate the way words like ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ and ‘it won’t happen again’ are passed around like government bonds or promissory notes, you know. The idea of communication is to say what you feel, not say and leave it up to the other person to spark their own feeling. It’s like giving some kid a bag of balloons on his birthday and telling him or her to blow them up. The word is a vessel. It’s coding, that’s all. "
― C. Sean McGee , The Time Traveler's Wife
2 " I know how a crane works. I can peel a potato eight different ways and I’m a little more than average at playing Green sleeves on a recorder. I can speak French, Dutch, Mandarin, Portuguese and English. I can read and write in eleven types of computer code. I can even unhook a bra. Yet, I can’t tell the difference between being bored and depressed. "
3 " And like the dictator, if the spider was ever removed from power, if some fearful liberating sponge were to wipe away its sticky veil of power, there would be no order anymore and all of those bloodsucking insects, they would be free to bite and suck and wreak havoc in this humid cramped space. John feared the spider, but he was thankful that it was there. "
4 " Everything is one” The Man said. “What about people? People are different.” “A one of any color is still a one. "
