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have always been seeking material, things of a certain tone and air, and not simple knowledge.
“We must take care not to let the bliss of the present fade when compared to supposedly better days. We’re happy, sure, but were we more happy then? If we let it, memories can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“but if every other option has been discarded as impossible, then insanity might—in this case—be practical.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“The imprecision of our language is a feature; it best represents the superlative fact of human existence: that our own emotions—even our souls—are themselves imprecise. Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“We want to imagine that people are consistent, steady, stable. We define who they are, create descriptions to lock them on a page, divide them up by their likes, talents, beliefs. Then we pretend some—perhaps most—are better than we are, because they stick to their definitions, while we never quite fit ours.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“That inspires me. We each make our own lore, our own legends, every day. Our memories are our ballads, and if we tweak them a little with every performance…well, that’s all in the name of good drama. The past is boring anyway. We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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