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“Well, enough of this introspection. Its depressing, quite frankly.”
“Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.”
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.”
“Spanishhow shall I say this?is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.”
“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.”
“Worry wasnt an emotion to which he was particularly accustomedand it worried him.”
“The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.”
“In his mothers honor, vowing not to commit the fashionable stupidity of ignoring things he didnt understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams ...”
“Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his se...”
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasnt inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that spirit, however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experie...”
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a zoom lens effect, in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclu...”
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.”
“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in the realm of metaphysics and begged an answer to why he ...”
“Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.”
“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him beforesimultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all the...”
“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss unadulterated and unconfinedin which he transcended his own persona...”
“Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.”
“The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was re...”
“In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was theOmega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the endand that the end was just another beginning.”
“In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dre...”
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable expe...”
