There was no sound more revolting or hateful to the ears than that voice which plucked me rudely from my garden of dreams.


“Now most people in affluent and middle-income countries worry about what (and how much) is best to eat in order to maintain or improve their health and extend their longevity, not whether they will have enough to survive.”
― How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
― How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

“My mother refused to use Uber. She said they weren’t New York. Taxis were New York.”
― Later
― Later

“Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s an awful randomness about it.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility

“The prairies are initially interesting, then tedious, then unsettling. There’s too much of them, that’s the problem. The scale is wrong. The train crawls like a millipede through endless grass. He can see from horizon to horizon. He feels terribly overexposed.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility

“I tuck my hair behind my ear in an attempt to busy them and glance back at the window, the sky morphing into a deep, inky blue, the sun a bubble on top of the horizon now, ready to burst.”
― A Flicker in the Dark
― A Flicker in the Dark
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