
Exhalation: Stories

Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
The economy goes into a recession after the latest flu pandemic, prompting changes in the virtual worlds.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
I hope you are not saddened by that awareness.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
But I would remind you that what is made cannot be unmade.”
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these t
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“And that you cannot avoid the ordeals that are assigned to you. What Allah gives you, you must accept.” “I remind myself of that every day of my life.”
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.