💬 Quotes

"He didn’t look like a monster. He looked like the kind of man who would hold the door for you at the grocery store, the kind who would return your lost wallet with every bill still tucked inside."

"The secret was not a weight I carried; it was a geography I lived in, a map where every landmark was marked by terror."

"Control isn't about being loud. It's about silence. It's about making sure the other person feels like the silence is their idea."

"You spend so long waiting to be saved that you start to wonder if the person you're waiting for is actually you."

"To the world, he was a father, a neighbor, a man who grieved his wife. To me, he was the architect of my erasure."

"People believe what is convenient. They believe in the version of the story that doesn't force them to change their minds about the people they think they know."

"Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way."

"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us."

"What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what you explore. What you call exploration is really just rape."

"You are making a profit from a mistake. You are selling a product that is inherently dangerous, and you are doing it in secret."

"We have so much confidence in our machines that we forget that machines are designed by people, built by people, and operated by people."

"God help us, we're in the hands of engineers."

"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just add a happy middle."

"Never ask for what ought to be offered."

"I knew where I was, and I knew why I was there, and I knew that if I didn't get back, the life I was trying to hold together would surely slip away."

"To be born here is to be kin to all the rest, and if you are kin, you are in their debt, whether you ask to be or not."

"Don't go asking for what you don't want to find."

"The land here didn't give up secrets easily, and neither did the people who lived upon it."

"I’m a Dolly. I don't run. I don't hide."

"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."