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“Everybody knows how to die. You just quit living and then you're slap-taught.”
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
“Why do you not fight when there is still breath and blood within you? Why do you not trumpet and flail?”
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
“But chains can be snapped, O best beloved mooncalf. Sticks can be knocked out of a Man's clever hands”
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
“Plus, here’s the thing. A kiss doesn’t need to be good to be valuable. It doesn’t serve any real purpose. It’s valued solely because of the person you share it with.
Things only have the value we give to them. And likewise, actions can be worth whatever we decide them to be worth.
And so, to these two, that kiss was priceless.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Things only have the value we give to them. And likewise, actions can be worth whatever we decide them to be worth.
And so, to these two, that kiss was priceless.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“It’s said that everything you eat, even the air you breathe, becomes part of you. The axi that make up the matter you take in come to make up you instead. I, however, find that the moments we take into our souls as memories are far more important than what we eat. We need those moments as surely as the air, and they linger. Potent. Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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