So she’d lied. That was interesting. She’d told him what he wanted to hear, and it wasn’t even because she wanted to protect him or keep him safe. It was just easier. She understood now why adults lied to children. It wasn’t love. It was exhaustion. And she was like them now. They’d eaten her.
Wars never ended because one side was defeated. They ended because the enemies were reconciled. Anything else was just a postponement of the next round of violence.
Getting what you want fucks you up.
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.
The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know. Every new wonder, no matter how astonishing, just laid the foundation for an even more astounding discovery later.
The universe is always stranger than you think.
Kate Bowler: Everything Happens for a Reason (2018, Random House)
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study …
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but …
If I were to invent a sin to describe what that was—for how I lived—I would not say it was simply that I didn’t stop to smell the roses. It was the sin of arrogance, of becoming impervious to life itself. I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead.
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but …
When I was little, my dad would read stories from Greek mythology, and I loved one most of all—that prideful king Sisyphus, who was doomed to roll a boulder up an impossibly steep hill only to have it roll down again. He would discover for all eternity that not every burden can be shouldered. Yes, I would think, learning nothing. But at least he kept trying.
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but …
The promise of heaven to me is this: someday I will get a new set of lungs and I will swim away. But first I will drown.
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a …
Everything changed, and it went right on changing. A terrible thought when things were good, a comforting one
— Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 7, #7)
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. AN OLD …
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a …
“It’s the reward of old age,” Avasarala said. “You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.”
— Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 7, #7)
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a …
“It seems like there’s always the way we wanted things to go, and there’s what actually happens.”
— Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 7, #7)