James Renner Quotes & Sayings

The universe is absurd. People want to make sense of it because we're hardwired to find reason in the randomness. We look for patterns in the chaos. See omens in coincidence. We look at the random distribution of stars in the sky and pretend they look like animals, call them constellations. For some reason, we want to give meaning to the meaningless. If you go looking for the number eighty-eight, you'll see it everywhere - the number of keys on a piano, the number of counties in Ohio - but it doesn't mean anything. — James Renner

There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people. — James Renner

The thing is, memory is about trust. We have to trust that what we remember is fact. And we have to trust what other people remember for things we never saw. — James Renner

Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him. — James Renner

And the process, the ritual, quieted the hum of his mind so he could write. — James Renner

When you're lost in the middle of a set of dominoes, you can't see the pattern that's forming in the falling blocks around you. — James Renner