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RamingoWS21 февраля 2017 г.If you don`t feel fear, you don`t feel joy or love. Not in any real way. Without the fear, the risk is gone. And without risk, rewards don`t matter. You`re left with nothing much at all. You`re numb.
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"You`re new, but you call this place your home?"
"Home is a choice," he says. "We`re home when we decide we`re home."13 - RamingoWS21 февраля 2017 г.
Sometimes you need to see what you`re up against to understand who you really are.
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"What`s keeping you from being happy?"
He says it as if I`m supposed to be happy, as if happiness were a normal state of being for someone like me.
Am I happy? I know there are times when I feel good. When I`m in motion, when I`m on assignment, when I finish a mission and I`m heading away, sending a ping to Father to let him know my work is done.
Is that happiness?
"Maybe I am," I say. "I`m not sure what happiness is."
"I`ll give you a hint," he says. "If you have to think about it that long, it`s not happiness."13 - RamingoWS21 февраля 2017 г.
It`s easy to trust fate when you think it`s on your side.
But sometimes fate turns against you.03 - RamingoWS21 февраля 2017 г.Читать далее
Everything is forgotten sooner or later. Life moves on. Even terrible things grow old over time. The psychological term is habituation. People who leave near airports no longer hear the jets. People with mansions stop feeling wealthy.
And people who lose someone eventually stop grieving.
Our minds are designed to habituate. The past is forgotten, put in its proper place. Intense stimuli become second nature. And terrible things become commonplace.
We can`t hold on even if we want to.
And yet there are things that stick. Not things you choose, but things that choose you.02 - RamingoWS21 февраля 2017 г.
"Once something is online, it can be found," Howard says. "Even after it`s erased. If they gave the order, we can find that order. Or some evidence of it."
"Ghosts in the machine," I say.
"And I am a ghost hunter."01 - RamingoWS21 февраля 2017 г.
"The measure of a soldier is not what you do when you`re being watched," Mike says. "It`s what you do when no one is looking. When you don`t know where you are and your mission gets cloudy."
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I do it quickly, ignoring the hiss and gurgle as his body fights for breath beneath my grip. Rather than think of this noises as a man trying to live, I`ve been taught to think of them as the sounds of danger.
When the sounds stop, the danger stops with them.
In this way, it becomes easy to protect myself, overriding the natural human instinct for compassion.01