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| a6da86e | Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and is the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C. MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com * THE SO.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 803fd2a | During the Court's first oral argument, Scalia asked so many questions that Powell turned to Thurgood Marshall, who sat beside him on the bench, and whispered, "Do you think he knows the rest of us are here?" | Evan Thomas | ||
| 88e39a2 | Marvels at her love for him. Her loyalty. So far beyond anything he deserves, it only intensifies the shame. | Blake Crouch | ||
| c9fab6d | That's not the way the human heart works. I can't just amputate what I feel. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 09b6336 | She took him by the hand and led him over. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 81f213e | But those other realities don't really exist." "Actually, they're just as real as the one you and I are experiencing at this moment." "How is that possible?" "It's a mystery. But there are clues. Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together--the thing that makes our whole universe work--comes from a theoretical substance we can't measure or observe directly. Something they call dark matter. And this dark m.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 7e79ab1 | It was odorless, but on the tongue the overwhelming note was burn, followed by a strong citrus pucker, and a finish that was mercifully short, like the flavor had just fallen off a cliff. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 42c507d | No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4ce4a59 | everything that can happen will happen. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 65f00a8 | Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn't see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won't last, so you revel in it while it's here. | Blake Crouch | ||
| b14bdde | Day'll come, when he's grown and it's too late, that you'd give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 3c7cfc2 | I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they're measured by their consequences." "Look," | Blake Crouch | ||
| dc04fda | little shit." Oatha withdrew a scrap of paper from his flap pocket, slid it across the bar. Joss unfolded it, saw where Oatha had scribbled something on a torn-out Montgomery Ward page advertising hobnailed miners' boots. "Fuck is this?" | Blake Crouch | ||
| f56239b | I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And how could I not? Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all fits together. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 387386e | Aashif stares at him through a hood of black cloth that reveals only a pair of brown, malevolent eyes and a mouthful of smiling teeth too white and perfect to be a product of any fourth-world, Middle-Eastern shithole. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 0d0c3c5 | It's the beautiful thing about youth. There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. I love my life, but I haven't felt that lightness of being in ages. Autumn nights like this are as close as I get. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 23dbc52 | Children's laughter--carefree, giddy, maniacal--filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 11d3243 | despite having warned himself she wouldn't anticipate his actually making it back to the cavern. He hadn't figured on it, assuming instead he'd run out of light and die of thirst, lost in the granitic entrails of the mountain. He turns away from the barred exit and walks back into the cavern among the bones, fearing his light will expire at any second, wanting at least | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1ef2f12 | Standing on this work of art and imagination, I feel small in the best kind of way. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 644b07b | thought. He | Blake Crouch | ||
| f1f8cf3 | It was nothing more than a beautiful prison, run by a psychopath. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ef83a6c | How can something so powerful in one world not bleed through into this one? | Blake Crouch | ||
| f351359 | Nearby, another homeless man is standing in the middle of the sidewalk, having a full-volume conversation with nobody. I think, Am I so different? Aren't we both lost in worlds that, for reasons beyond our control, no longer align with our identity? | Blake Crouch | ||
| cce2eb5 | It's the beautiful thing about youth. There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential | Blake Crouch | ||
| e09beca | It's funny. I don't remember forgetting | Blake Crouch | ||
| 357363a | It was the fakeness that killed her. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 47945fd | I say, "This whole time, we've been wondering where the controls are--" "But we're the controls." "Yep. And if that's the case, then we have the ability to go wherever we want. Including home." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 7d0fc97 | I think I know who I am. But there's a part of me that wonders...What if the recollection I have of my real life--husband, father, professor--isn't real? | Blake Crouch | ||
| ed18897 | What do you think is happening to you?" "I'm not entirely sure." "But you're a scientist. You have a theory." "I don't have enough data." "What does your gut tell you?" I sip the chamomile tea, savoring the hit of warmth as it slides down my throat. "We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we're a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 290f6ad | We associate reality with the tangible--everything we can experience with our senses. And though I keep telling myself there's a box on the South Side of Chicago that can take me to a world where I have everything I want and need, I no longer believe that place exists | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8e3d2e6 | It'll be your loss, Ethan. Day'll come, when he's grown and it's too late, that you'd give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn't see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won't last, so you revel in it while it's here. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 97f33ba | There was no end date for her sentence in this place. She was a lifer. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ac82235 | And in that moment, he no longer regarded the residents of Abandon and the thousand other mining camps scattered like bacteria through the West as people of ambition and courage. They were a cold, dirty, desperate, miserable lot. He saw them now so clearly. They had crossed the plains and made homes in these savage mountains and borne their myriad afflictions not because they were brave pioneers pursuing a dream. They had come for no other .. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1ceec22 | If I represent the pinnacle of family success for all the Jason Dessens, Jason2 represents the professional and creative apex. We're opposite poles of the same man. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 910232b | I am hardwired to love and protect that woman. | Blake Crouch | ||
| f63a277 | If I represent the pinnacle of family success for all the Jason Dessens, Jason2 represents the professional and creative apex. We're opposite poles of the same man, and I suppose it isn't a coincidence that Jason2 sought out my life from the infinite possibilities available. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 0c8a28b | I'm running a battery of tests, but everything appears to have come through fully preserved. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 13cba70 | Jack, I'm just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me." "Dee--" "I'm not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that." "You have a daughter, too. You don't have the luxury not to handle shit." | responsibility perceverance | Blake Crouch | |
| 2c2a172 | What's the demographic?" "Men. Women. Children." "High-velocity GSWs?" | Blake Crouch | ||
| 81bf4d4 | Her therapist, Christian, would tell her to challenge the thought to use. To stop, take a moment, and analyze the error in it. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 715d79e | Inside, the air-conditioning was set to blizzard. | Blake Crouch | ||
| dee4911 | I ask, "You think you'd ever forget it entirely? Your world?" "I don't know. I could see it getting to the point where it didn't feel real anymore. Because it isn't. The only thing that's real in this moment is this city. This room. This bed. You and me." | Blake Crouch | ||
| acc33bb | Crazy hungry. Didn't even come up for air until she was halfway through and nearly choked when she did. Because that man was sitting across from her, smiling. It was a beautiful smile. Broad and bright. But there was something malicious and knowing in it that she couldn't quite put her finger on. Like the man wasn't smiling at her, but rather at something he knew about her. | Blake Crouch | ||
| a598b67 | No, what do you call that?" "I call that you-ain't-gotta-do-shit-ever-again money. I call that living-right-for-the-rest-of-your-life money. Don't tell me some part of you hasn't always dreamed of robbing a casino." | Blake Crouch |