“I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.
We want to be remembered.
So remember us.
Please.
Remember us.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Not everyone has to fly high to prove they exist; some of us are perfectly happy flying low and enjoying the view.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe"
"I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“You don’t get involved, you don’t get let down”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Not if you like lies so much you want to live one”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“We simply don’t have enough data to form a conclusion”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Esta es mi familia.
Te vuelve absolutamente loco.
Pero los extrañas cuando ya no están aquí.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“You kids are handling this a whole lot better than he is.’
I wondered if that meant we were pretty darned tough.
Or whether we simply lacked the imagination to see how bad things really were”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“There is another physical law that teases me, too: the Doppler Effect. The sound of anything coming at you- a train, say, or the future- has a higher pitch than the sound of the same thing going away. If you have perfect pitch and a head for mathematics you can compute the speed of the object by the interval between its arriving and departing sounds. I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history? Like all falling bodies, it constantly accelerates. But I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a somber sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from Angle of Repose
“Course, I always knew you were a royal. Just didn't know it went past the pain-in-the-ass part.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Revealed
“Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly.
"Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Club Dead
“A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if that it what it is, though why organic farmers should feel defensive about it is itself a mystery, a relic, perhaps, of our fetishism of science as the only credible tool with which to approach nature. ... The peasant rice farmer who introduces ducks and fish to his paddy may not understand all the symbiotic relationships he's put in play--that the ducks and fishes are feeding nitrogen to the rice and at the same time eating the pests. But the high yields of food from this ingenious polyculture are his to harvest even so.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.
I go to a school for spies.”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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