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“We are wired for connection. But the key is that, in any given moment of it, it has to be real.”

“It’s funny how memory erodes. If all I had to work from where my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp moments standing out.”

They could laugh at him but they couldn’t ignore him.

“Come now, “he said. Have you anything to fear? It seems to me, on the contrary, that everything is working out as you would wish.” “That is precisely what terrifies me,” said Dantès. “I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and, in truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming Mercédès’ husband.”

“The truth, however, is very different from this. Certainly there are individuals and larger forces out there that continually have an effect on us, and there is much we cannot control in the world. But generally what causes us to go astray in the first place, what leads to bad decisions and miscalculations, is our deep-rooted irrationality, the extent to which our minds are governed by emotion.”

“His dad didn’t tell him off for shouting. He pulled Logan close and hugged him. ‘Not as much as I’ll miss you,’ he said. “But maybe you’re right. Maybe Bear should go with you.”

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

“The Art of Peace is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.”

“To my mind, love ... both the sorts of love, which you remember Plato defines in his Banquet, served as the test of men. Some men only understand one sort, and some only the other.”

“Free!—I had but escaped death in one form of agony, to be delivered unto worse than death in some other.”