Quotes from Tim Lott

Jean] had the guts to kill herself, and I admire her for it, although, of course, she was quite crazy at the time, with a brain misfiring like a cross-wired laptop. Pressing the keystrokes love , the screen read die . Pressing the keystrokes survive , the screen read die . The damn thing, her mind-machine, was shot.

I decided to let it go. The way I saw it,everything is temporary. Even the biggest stars die. Feelings are more temporary than most things. You just have to wait for them to pass.

We tend to fantasise about eliminating uncertainty so that the world can be safe… the first thing to note about uncertainty – or insecurity, the uncomfortable feeling it produces – is that it is intrinsic to a dynamic existence… insecurity is inescapable.

There are so many whys, and I'm just a poor, stupid girl. My head hurts from not understanding. My heart hurts from being alone.

The three angels were called Truth, Courage, and Compassion. These seemed very old-fashioned words. Corny, even. Little Fearless had no time for fancy words like that. She'd have been more convinced that the angels represented something real if they had been named Doubt, Cruelty, and Revenge. Or Anger, Confusion, and Indifference. These seemed to be the powers that ran the world.

Under the same star... A history from love. i love the romances

If I have any advice for you, it comes down to this: never imagine you know more than you do. Because the truth is, you almost certainly know less than you think.

The thing is, these two tiny things are so tangled together, that if you separate them and put them millions or even billions of miles apart, they still know about each other. They still relate to each other. If one of them changes, the other one changes - immediately, in the same millisecond. They each know what is happening to the other one, even though they might be light years apart. That's how intimate they are. That's how entwined their destinies are.

You should not pray to Eidolon. Or Ormazd, or any other god. You should pray to the stars, to the universe, for ourselves and for our lives, brief and imperfect as they are. Give thanks for the astonishing miracle that there is something rather than nothing. That we exist at all in the endless void. We should worship one another. We should worship our sameness as well as our uniqueness. We should worship what makes us truly human. Compassion. Courage. And truth.