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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
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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
“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
“Royce hated keeping secrets from Hadrian, and it weighed heavily on his conscience, which was amazing, because he had never known he had one. Royce defined right and wrong by the moment. Right was what was best for him—wrong was everything else.”
― Rise of Empire
― Rise of Empire
“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
“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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“Stained upon my hands, the blood of innocents brands my soul with such a crime forgiveness gapes appalled.”
― Percepliquis
― Percepliquis
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