“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.”
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.”
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...”
“Okay, Polly,” her grandfather said. “Let’s have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?”
“I was broken. I didn't need to break anyone else with me.”
“If you want something, you have to take it. Because nobody's ever going to give it to you. So we're going to take back what has been taken from us. Ad then we'l' create a better future for Paelsia. A better future for us all.”
“...did that require such a leap of the imagination? Perhaps affectation can be so thoroughgoing, so authentic in its details, that it stops being pretense… and becomes, for all practical purposes, real.”
“Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.”
“But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.”
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