“You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.” WorldYearsDifferentHardJoySpiritTurnsChoicesQualityWeekMonthsSuitsArmorYour FreedomExuberanceSuits Of Armor Book:Starting Out in the Evening Source: Starting Out in the Evening
“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.” IfsWorldHumansStoriesWould BeTogetherObjectsBoundsSpinningMuteOrbitElectronsProtonBlankness Book:Starting Out in the Evening Source: Starting Out in the Evening
