Suffering is not unnecessary. It is entirely necessary. It is what makes us human.


“Everything said, you couldn’t hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind

“We’re all biologists, not geologists,” Xavier said. “But I’ve read speculation that rising ocean levels from global warming are affecting the tectonic plates in some ways no one had predicted.”
― The Lure of Infinity
― The Lure of Infinity
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