Posts tagged human
Posts tagged human
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, ‘There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge?
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,’ he said.
‘And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.
— John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
