

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
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“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Kushiel's Dart
― Kushiel's Dart

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything

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