“I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana—not that three isn’t enough, but that the three on offer aren’t enough to sustain a marriage?”
― The Wallcreeper
― The Wallcreeper
“And this is the difference between me and the rest of the world: most people can let their feelings shift without a wildebeest smashing them up from the inside, but I, for some reason, cannot—and, still, I am more human than wildebeest so I’ll never be exempt from the human need for other people to be near, but because I am part wildebeest they can’t be too near, and I would like to apologize for that but I can’t apologize for that, I can’t apologize to everyone who deserves an apology for it, unless no one deserves anything, in which case, what a relief, because I can give everyone that nothing—I can give them nothing all day.”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters?
Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Weather
Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Weather
“[...] being occasionally destroyed is, I think, a necessary part of the human experience.”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person.”
― The Answers
― The Answers
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