Hardcore Vanilla

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say.
-Faber”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn't be here.
-Guy Montag”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Remember we are never given anything that we can't handle. When the world crumbles around you, sometimes you gotta look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember that you are still here. The human heart, it beats approximately 4,000 times per hour. And each pulsin' and each throbbin' and each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words "you are still alive.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Okay.” Ashe shouldered her rifle and straightened her hat. No wig anymore, her white hair was out for all to see, though she’d braided it to keep it out of the way. Calamity was nothing more than a piece of her now; she had no illusions that Marco had kept her secret. Chances were, anyone who’d known her by her other persona now knew who she really was, or would know soon enough. Though, honestly, it was a relief to be done with the fiction, in the same way it was a relief to be done with her old life.”
― Lyndsay Ely, Deadlock Rebels: An AFK Book