You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.
I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
I have always worried about things more than I should.
I am the Truth (Ana al-Ḥaqq).
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if theyre out there, we better hope they never find us.
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.