May Phoenix

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The Promise

by Damon Galgut

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The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 13

by Hiromu Arakawa

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The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 12

by Hiromu Arakawa

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“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

tags: direction, future, keep-going, quit

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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: inspirational, love

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“There was someone, a very long time ago, yes. We couldn’t make it work for reasons I won’t get into, but I felt like I couldn’t breathe without him. I would have done anything to be with him; he changed me. Once you feel like that for someone, everything else pales in comparison.”
― J.A. Rouen

tags: chemistry, love

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“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.”
― C. Alexander London, Moonlight Brigade

tags: be-the-change, creation, creativity, dreams, dreams-come-true, imagination, stories, storytelling, worldbuilding

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“Living turned me into nothing. Weird... People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become. Something's wrong with this picture. Life isn't supposed to turn out like this! Isn't it possible to shift direction, to change where I'm headed?”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: irony-of-life

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