“the only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions”
“Very few troubles in life couldn’t be lessened by a nice smile—that was what her mother always said.”
“the only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.”
“Margaret laughed. “Sure thing. Sorry, Ave. I’ll go and get the tea.” Ave. If Avice had been feeling less awful, she would have corrected her: there was nothing worse than an abbreviated name.”
“I suppose I hadn't believed in Fate until that point. But it's hard not to [...] when you think that there was no way, across miles, continents, vast ocean, we were meant to see each other again.”
“bunched formation of fighter planes, it”
“His wife, rather irritatingly, raised an eyebrow, as if she could no longer be bothered to make an adequate response to his observations.”
“I don’t think he’ll be able to see you over the radio,” Frances ventured. “But I still want to look nice for him.” Margaret”
“He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him.”
“known as Ward G had been moved back”
“None of us lasts forever, do we? If I'm honest, seeing her like that was an unwelcome reminder of my own mortality. Of what I had been. Of what we all must become.”
“Directly above the starboard engine room, it was also in a state of almost constant vibration, the noise juddering away below their feet with an awesome, leviathan constancy.”
“The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age.”
“Captain,” she said, “the only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.”
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.”
“The idea that there’s good and evil knowledge . . . well, that’s strictly a religious point of view. Actions can be either moral or immoral, yes, but knowledge can’t be labeled that way. To a scientist, to any educated man or woman, all knowledge is morally neutral.”
“You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.'
I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.'
It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.'
'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before.”
“We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.”
“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
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