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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”
― Pablo Neruda

“People didn't stick because I was made of fucking Teflon. I'd always told myself that it was better that way, that being alone was easier. That I wasn't a coward for easing my way out of friendships before they could really start.”
― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

“Fucking Mages.”
― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

“Affirmation and illusion, bound up tighter than two snakes in the same egg.”
― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to do what science will do, free from morality, free from ethical concerns, and most of all, free from the petty worry that it will not be believed. Belief has shaped the history of human accomplishment—we believe we can, and so we do—but belief has never changed the natural world. The mountain does not vanish because we believe it should. The unicorn does not appear because we believe it will.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“It was beautiful, in its own terrible way.
So many monsters are.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Knowledge that can be imparted loudly and with passion always lasts longer than knowledge that has to be whispered.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Each new wave of humanity found itself crashing onto a beach that was a little more cluttered from what had come before, a little more damaged from the carelessness of others.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Seafood has less of an ecological impact, and pigs are smart," said Tory. "You shouldn't eat anything that knows how to play fetch. It's rude.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“He has wondered lately if that's all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“There are so few things in our existence we can count on to give us the sense of permanence, of the ground beneath our feet. People fail us. Our bodies fail us. We fail ourselves. He's experienced all of that. But what do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change. What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Everything will look better in the morning.
There will be hope again when the light returns.
The despair is only an illusion, a trick the darkness plays.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar—when the city sleeps but you don’t, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“I think balance is for people who don't know why they're here.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“He thinks how it will be winter soon, and then another year gone by and another one on the chopping block, time flowing faster and faster. Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“This low point isn't the book of your life. It's just a chapter.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“My soul knows your soul. In any time.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“When every memory contains a universe, what does simple even mean?”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“If you want to understand the world, you have to start by understanding—truly understanding—how we experience it.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. —GEORGE ORWELL, 1984”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“But on a night like this, of a restless mind and dreams of ghosts, time feels secondary to the true prime mover—memory. Perhaps memory is fundamental, the thing from which time emerges.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“In high school, in college, she was encouraged again and again to find her passion-a reason to get out of bed and breathe. In her experience, few people ever found that raison d'etre.
What teachers and professors never told her was about the dark side of finding your purpose. The part where it consumes you. Where it becomes a destroyer of relationship and happiness. And still, she wouldn't trade it. This is the only person she knows how to be.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“...everything seems scarier at night. It's just an illusion. A trick the darkness plays on us.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion