Mary E. Pearson quotes

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? (Mary E. Pearson)
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go? View quote
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I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand. View quote
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Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against? View quote
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I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6) View quote
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Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way. View quote
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My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later. View quote
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The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. (Mary E. Pearson)
Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256) View quote
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There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless. View quote
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What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between. View quote
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The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way. View quote
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Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky. View quote
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...and time becomes a forgotten detail. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Don't be afraid, child, The stories are always there. (Mary E. Pearson)
A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four-but very nicely weighted-and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts. View quote
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I suppose if we're going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it. View quote
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It doesn't matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals. View quote
Mary E. Pearson