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#2

“Perhaps once we might be able to sneak a death past him. Immortal, yes, but not indestructible. I saw that when AM withdrew from my mind, and allowed me the exquisite ugliness of returning to consciousness with the feeling of that burning neon pillar still rammed deep into the soft gray brain matter. He withdrew, murmuring to hell with you. And added, brightly, but then you're there, aren't you.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

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#3

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

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#3

“Get this: how many Weavers does it take to screw in a light bulb?'

Kate folded her arms, her expression aloof. Acciper pensively scratched his beard, withholding his ignorance.

'One?' ventured Vivian.

Lucian's boyish face split into a grin. His body filled up with the imminent rumble of laughter.

'Two Weavers. One holds the light bulb and the other one spins reality around it.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Book of Chaos

tags: funny-quotes, hilarious-jokes, hilarious-quotes, lightbulb-joke, reality, vivian-amberville, vivian-amberville-quotes, weavers

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#4

“Step, step, step, I fall and they lift me, slip-slop, slip-slop, through the watery mud. Each step is a heartbeat on my way to the grave, and the longest walk I will ever take. Plip, plip, I slip and they gather me. How strong are these savages, and how tight is their grip! Plip, plip, plip patters the rain, and I fall, and I call, and I stall for more time.

But my time has run out.”
― Louise Blackwick, Jump into the Abyss!

tags: abyss-quotes, horror-fiction, rhyming-prose, short-story

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#5

“Listen to me, dear. When life hands you something, you take it, for in all likelihood, there’s a large crisis heading your way.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: bestseller, inspirational-life, life-lessons, life-philosophy, louise-blackwick, vivian-amberville-quotes

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#6

“And our love goes beyond flesh; it transcends Death's reminder. In the Underworld Library, two books sharing a binder”
― Louise Blackwick, Jump into the Abyss!

tags: death-and-dying, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, love-quotes

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#7

“I... I had a dream,’ said Mario through a pained expression, ‘that my life was not my-my-my own. That I didn’t create my own destiny. That my fate was predetermined. Amanita, you don’t think—’
‘Shush,’ she whispered, placing a finger over his lips, ‘they might hear you...”
― Louise Blackwick, The Underworld Rhapsody

tags: controversial-fiction, determinism, drug-abuse, drug-addiction, drug-use, free-will, jungian-archetypes, louise-blackwick-quotes, psychedelics, the-underworld-rhapsody

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#8

“At the Twilight of Gods bides the Weaver of Odds.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: inspirational-quotes, vivian-amberville, weaver-of-odds

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#9

“There were wires coming out of Amanita’s olive skin. Thin-as-hairs and in the colour of silver, the threads appeared to descend from the bedroom ceiling (without physically being tethered to it) only to wrap themselves securely around the woman’s unsuspecting wrists. Mario rubbed his eyes raw, trying to dispense with the illusion.
Amanita noticed him looking and pushed a lock of hair over her shoulder. As she moved, the white-metallic Thread followed her gesture without ever detaching from her wrist.
Mario automatically beheld his own hands. They were not shackled.
“She isn’t free!”
― Louise Blackwick, The Underworld Rhapsody

tags: cosmic-strings, determinism, drug-abuse, drug-addiction, drug-use, free-will, jungian-archetypes, louise-blackwick-quotes, psychedelics, the-underworld-rhapsody

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#10

“Your badges represent just that: your choice, your conscious choice to place yourselves outside a predefined path; beyond the care of omniscient beings, and into your own capable hands.

For a Weaver’s freewill is absolute; a Weaver is a master of their own life; a Weaver creates their own reality – but more importantly – a Weaver is responsible for reality.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: choices-and-consequences, freewill-quotes, inspirational-quotes, master-of-life, master-of-the-universe, purpose-quotes, responsibility, vivian-amberville

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#11

“The multiverse has selected its champions – had selected you – and yet under the blazing suns, here we stand: self-seeking and imperfect, lacking in wisdom, lacking in courage, afraid of death and of pain; afraid of our choices and the consequences they bring—’

‘—and you ask yourselves: if only I could be that one person that makes it all better; that stops the degrading of worldly values. If only I could be that brave person that brings out the good in the bad.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: choices-and-consequences, inspirational-quotes, make-a-difference-make-a-change, purpose-of-life, vivian-amberville

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#12

“Why have you climbed all the way up here? What were you looking for? Would I be too presumptuous to assume you were looking for help? That you hoped you would hear something that would be of guidance – of relevance – to you, young members of a reality that is running out of time?”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: guidance-in-life, inspirational-quotes, purpose-of-life, vivian-amberville

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#13

“The drug dealer leaned forward and covered his mouth conspiratorily with the back of his hand. In a voice softer than a gust of wind, he said: ‘Got some new merch, though. High tech, top of the line. Muy experimental. Packs quite the punch they say, and hits you like a brick wall, espiritualmente,’ he pushed three fingers together and planted them a kiss. ‘Real sweet. Un dragón muy poderoso.’
‘Any... particular side-side-side-effects?’ Mario scratched his chin, thinking back on his aggresive nosebleeds.
‘Not a dicky bird,’ affirmed the dealer. ‘This stuff’s cleaner than la cocina de tu abuela. Mind you, it does call for some weird shit, no doubt about it. And you gotta watch yourself for sharp table corners and the lot, cause you WILL be tripping.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Underworld Rhapsody

tags: drug-abuse, drug-addiction, drug-use, jungian-achetypes, louise-blackwick-quotes, psychadelics, the-underworld-rhapsody

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#14

“Beyond a thin veil of space stretched Existence, the frailest and most imbalanced reality of the cosmos. No one was really sure why it was imbalanced, but some believed it had something to do with the general alcohol consumption per capita.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: alcohol, funny-quotes, humans-and-evolution, vivian-amberville

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#15

“Her attention was now drawn upon a boy whose imagination had the potential to change the face of reality. Unfortunately for him, Ærinna liked reality the way it was: fluid, slippery and with a brick in it. The case was quickly resolved by giving the young boy an appetite for procrastination.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: funny-quotes, procrastination-quotes, vivian-amberville, weaver-of-odds

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#16

“The Weaveress squinted at the loom. While any other person would merely see a thickset of colour-flashing Threads, Ærinna saw cosmic events, destinies and the collective soul of countless beings. Some of them were about to kick the bucket and kick it well. They weren’t to die of any expected natural causes either – unless one counted being “woven out of the Pattern” either natural or expected.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: death-and-dying, funny-quotes, manipulating-reality, surreal-quotes, weaver-of-odds

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#17

“By weaving their thoughts and feelings into the substance of reality, the Weavers had ensured anyone writing about them would secure an instant bestseller – which wasn’t particularly difficult, considering the Weavers held the strings on the one holding the pen.

Those who controlled the Pattern, controlled reality.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: bestsellerism, bestsellers, free-will-quotes, funny-quotes, vivian-amberville, weaver-of-odds

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#18

“Vivian’s first impression of Solidago was that she had travelled back in time, but not to a time where architecture had been invented. All houses were twisted out of shape, to say the least. Windows either too large to open or too small to make a difference peppered the city in places one would never dream of having one.

The walls were mostly cast in brickwork by the kind of stonemason whose day job was financial advising. Skewed walls with more bricks than mortar, knotted chimneys keeping the smoke inside and cupping rooftops whose main purpose was to gather rainwater – Solidago had it all and more.

As the oldest civilization of the cosmos, Alarians might have been excellent at healing, philosophizing and weaving into the fabric of reality, but they were very poor city builders.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: architecture, city, city-life, funny-quotes, vivian-amberville, weaver-of-odds

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#19

“A day may come when all hope is lost; when the oceans run red with our blood, and our darkest hour is upon us— and when it comes, that red day of reckoning, we turn, my dears, not to our rulers-in-good-times, but to our leaders-in-bad-times.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: inspirational-quotes, leadership-characteristics, leadership-quotes, philosophical-quotes, rulership

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#20

“Our dream of happiness is waiting for another universe to collide with our own, and change what we ourselves cannot.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: inspirational-quotes, philosophical-quotes

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#21

“As the Weaver, so is the Thread”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#22

“Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

tags: government, rulership, spacing-guild

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#23

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: administration, capitalism, capitalistic, capitalistic-greed, capitalists, censorship, corporate-gain, corrupt, corruption, defunct, democracy, democratic, dysfunctional, empire, government, government-corruption, greed, greed-corruption, greedy, humanity-quotes, hypocrisy, interests, justice, leadership, money, nation, not-working, people, plutocracy, policies, profit, profit-drive, profitability, profits, rulership, social-system, social-systems, society, system, truth

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#24

“It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

tags: adultery, kings, love, murders, power, queens, rape, rulership, sacrifices, vengeance

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#25

“A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

tags: 1962, 355, court, hypocrisy, monarchy, rulership

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#26

“Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last prefer tyranny to chaos. Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and 'he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.' Democracy has still to solve the problem of enlisting the best energies of men while giving to all alike the choice of those, among the trained and fit, by whom they wish to be ruled.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: aristocracy, democracy, equality, government, monarchy, nature, politics, rulership, spinoza

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#27

“Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.”
― Sherry K. White

tags: authority, dominion, rule, rulership

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#28

“Rulership does not sit comfortably on any worthy head.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

tags: queen, rulership

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#29

“To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: break-loose, danger, darkness, destruction, devil, dominion, god, ignorance, knowledge, life, light, manipulation, mountain, people, power, rulership

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#30

“As breathing is to life, prayer is to the Church. The breath of life comes into us; prayer rises within us, and communion with God becomes the most normal thing that there is...

We are pray-ers!
Our life is a prayer!
Our stance in God is a prayer.
Our place in Him is a place of prayer!

Prayer is what we build into our lives.
Prayer is what we become!
We are an outworking of how we work with Him.”
― Paul Brady

tags: christian-living, christianity, faith, heavenly-seating, kingdom-of-god, love, prayer, prayer-life, rulership

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