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“I don't have enough time. I am being pulled in too many directions. Someone or something is stealing my time. Whether you complain that you are overworked and overextended or you believe that other people, obligations, or competing loyalties are forcing you to postpone or cancel your own aspirations or dreams, you're basically saying one thing: you are inefficient. Yes, it's your fault. It's bullshit and you can change that.”

“I don't have money to buy a bunch of land. I don't know how much you think land goes for nowadays, but it's not a dollar an acre anymore." Ryker smirked. "Trust me when I say I have more than enough money for it." I balked. "How? You live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with no real job and nothing around you." "And I'm a dragon, Dani. A dragon who likes his gold." Slowly, so slowly, it sank in. He did mercenary work, that much I knew, and that kind of thing paid well, right? Dragons hoarding treasure seemed like something out of a fairy tale, but then again so did dragons until a few weeks ago. The confident look on his face said it all.”

“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don’t think jokes even belong in proper books. I won’t bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature.”

“I don't have the right word for how she looks, but even now, with parts of her face swollen and discolored, there's something striking about her, something I haven't seen before. In that moment I'm able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it's her. I'll have to start by telling her my name.”

“I don't have the words to describe it, but it was like going on a journey with someone. Where didn't matter. To outer space. It went on for a long time. I started to fold down the corners of pages when there was a bit I really liked, and he started to write little comments in the margins. Just the odd word. 'Beautiful.' 'True.' That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”

“I Don't Have Time to Explain (Sonnet 2466-2467) I don't have time to explain basic science, I don't have time to explain why vaccines are crucial, why the earth is not flat. I don't have time to explain basic theology, I don't have time to explain why no religion is truer than another, and why belief as coping mechanism is okay, but belief mustn't be confused with truth. For example, if you wanna talk facts, most scientific religion is buddhism, for much of buddhist literature is basic psychology, sure, all religious meanderings occasionally align with modern science, but no theology is more aligned with modern science than buddhism - likewise, most nonviolent religion is jainism, to harm even a fly is sin in jainism - and most charitable religion is sikhism, nobody goes hungry where there is a sikh langar, that too without being converted into a sikh. There are two kinds of divinity in the world, doctrinal divinity and human divinity - doctrinal divinity is less holy, more prejudice, whereas human divinity prioritizes humanity. There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human truth is more than facts - human truth applies facts wisely among other instruments to uplift human condition.”