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" Cette idée me plaisait: que la particularité ne soit pas un manque, mais quelque chose en plus. J'aimais penser que l'on possédait quelque chose qui faisait défaut aux gens normaux, plutôt que le contraire. que nous étions augmentés, et non diminués. "

" Le véritable objet de l'argent, c'est de manipuler les autres pour qu'ils se sentent inférieurs à toi. "

" - Je ne crois pas à ce genre de choses. Le destin. Les étoiles, et tout...

- Je n'ai pas parlé de destin.

- Tu as dit: "Tu es censé...". Ça revient au même. Le destin, c'est pour les personnages de roman avec des épées magiques. Tout ça, c'est des conneries. "

"Ça vous arrive souvent de descendre dans un tombeau pendant un bombardement , et de regretter de ne pas être restés au lit ?"

Oh, how I missed my toothbrush. How I longed for my minty floss, my ocean-breeze-scented deodorant stick. What I wouldn't have given, just then, to find a Smart Aid store.

My kingdom for a pack of fresh underwear!

She put her arms around me again and we held each other for a long moment, her head on my shoulder, breath warm on my neck, and suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being. But then she pulled away and kissed my forehead and started back toward the others. I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I'd never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap-and kill me.

I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.

"There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery."

"That's because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you"

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