Rick Yancey, The Last Star Quotes
Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.
Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.
You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.
The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.
The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.
To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.
It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.
I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.
You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.