“I didn't used to be like this. I didn't believe in love and romance and swooning. My default setting was bitch”
“This is the second fucking time I've gotten shot when I was with you. I don't think we can be friends anymore.”
“Everything that tried to stand between us doesn't matter.
We might have broken a little.
But now we're stronger in those broken places.
And we're going to face whatever comes next together.”
“I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go.”
“This is epic monument-style shit we're in.”
“Even though I wasn't there, you were always with me. Always.”
“I thought we had the kind of love that could do anything.”
“You suck at working with someone," I say, because it's true.”
“Instead of responding to me, he shakes his head and walks out of the room. And because I’m me, I follow. We are not done with this conversation.”
“Giving up on something is like admitting you never wanted it in the first place.”
“But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.”
“It was one of many times I tried to save her. But by the time I did, it was too late.”
“And then there are the dreams that feel as authentic as reality itself, that seem to exist just as your own life does. Where the emotions you experience there carry over to when you're awake. They are so real, so genuine, that you begin to question your own sanity. And you know that when the day comes that you finally stop dreaming them, you will never stop remembering.”
“The essence of the evening was captured by a question from the audience. Someone asked: “What would it take to change your worldview?” My answer was simple: Any single piece of evidence. If we found a fossilized animal trying to swim between the layers of rock in the Grand Canyon, if we found a process by which a new huge fraction of a radioactive material’s neutrons could become protons in some heretofore fantastically short period of time, if we found a way to create eleven species a day, if there were some way for starlight to get here without going the speed of light, that would force me and every other scientist to look at the world in a new way. However, no such contradictory evidence has ever been found—not any, not ever.”
“A man in a cloud, with icicle teeth and eyes of fire.”
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