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― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it”—so”
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
“In stories, when a giant was slain, it toppled thunderously to the ground. In reality, a giant died much the same way anything else did: screaming and shitting itself.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.”
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
“Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”
― Jade City
― Jade City
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