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There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri

Chom. Don't you have an urge to see justice done?" "It's not nearly as strong as my urge to reach forty with a complete set of limbs.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Do you suppose it all means something?
That we're being left clues?
Perhaps.
Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.

He often talked to himself when he was overwhelmed with fear. He saw it as a more dignified reaction than wetting himself. And

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said.
"It wasn't a dream," she told him.

His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn't have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.

Forget the planet, save the garden.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

May I ask how your revolution's going?
Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.

I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole ...

Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.

There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul

The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.

The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.

He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well.

Socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.

Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.

Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

I'm left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there's nothing unskilled about labor.