"Why are old maps always burnt?"

--

Chelsea Peretti

“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
“Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.”
“It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.”
“Nothing is more inspiring in todayâ€™s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each otherâ€™s friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality.”
“Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.”
“Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?”
“...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”
“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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