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Samuel Sylvester
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"Need to make long review and have to have this fresh on my mind. Problem is I'm bored of it now and want to read something else, so I'll put it off for some time." — Jul 14, 2016 04:16PM
"Need to make long review and have to have this fresh on my mind. Problem is I'm bored of it now and want to read something else, so I'll put it off for some time." — Jul 14, 2016 04:16PM
Samuel Sylvester
is currently reading
progress:
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"Don't like this book, it's slow and has a bunch of typos. Not to mention i'm at chapter seven and have little to no idea what's going on.gonna drop it for now and read something else." — Jun 03, 2016 08:05PM
"Don't like this book, it's slow and has a bunch of typos. Not to mention i'm at chapter seven and have little to no idea what's going on.gonna drop it for now and read something else." — Jun 03, 2016 08:05PM
“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― The Hidden Messages in Water
― The Hidden Messages in Water
“Stained upon my hands, the blood of innocents brands my soul with such a crime forgiveness gapes appalled.”
― Percepliquis
― Percepliquis
“Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.
Human: You don’t believe in God?
Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.
Human: You evolved. We were created.
Hive Queen: By a virus.
Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.
Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.
Human: I understand belief.
Hive Queen: No—you desire belief.
Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.
Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity.”
― Xenocide
Human: You don’t believe in God?
Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.
Human: You evolved. We were created.
Hive Queen: By a virus.
Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.
Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.
Human: I understand belief.
Hive Queen: No—you desire belief.
Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.
Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity.”
― Xenocide
“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
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