The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

I could have seen it rain frogs.

I could have stepped foot on Mars.

I could have been eaten by a whale.

I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea.

But my miracle was different.

My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Paper Towns, John Green

Hes stuck out there.

He thinks hes totally alone and that we all gave up on him.

What kind of effect does that have on a mans psychology? He turned back to Venkat.

I wonder what hes thinking right now.

LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? Theyre mammals! Makes no sense.

The Martian, Andy Weir

There is good news ten percent of big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay... -Sylvia Earle

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It is not down on any map; true places never are." Herman Melville, Moby $!$#, or the Whale

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Ive wrestled with alligators. Ive tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, and throw thunder in jail. You know Im bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. Im so mean, I make medicine sick. (Muhammad Ali)

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