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"i got before sunrise’d again and he told me this was his sci-fi bible" — Aug 25, 2026 12:54PM
"i got before sunrise’d again and he told me this was his sci-fi bible" — Aug 25, 2026 12:54PM
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"1) one of the physicians asked my MA supervisor about me while i was doing a draw and my MA said i always have a diff book w me 😕 but she said it nice i love her she’s a sweetie
2) my car battery DIED and i read in a boba shop for an hour. did not get coffee though" — Aug 28, 2026 06:54PM
"1) one of the physicians asked my MA supervisor about me while i was doing a draw and my MA said i always have a diff book w me 😕 but she said it nice i love her she’s a sweetie
2) my car battery DIED and i read in a boba shop for an hour. did not get coffee though" — Aug 28, 2026 06:54PM
“You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”
― Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
― Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn't even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn't talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
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“I've read your poems, Cyrus. I get that you're Persian. Born there, raised here. I know that's a part of you. But you've probably spent more time looking at your phone today, just today, than you've spent cutting open pomegranates in your entire life. Cumulatively. Right? But how many fucking pomegranates are in your poems? Versus how many iPhones? Do you see what I mean?" Cyrus wanted to kick him in the face. For being racist. For being a little right.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“She is the virgin-harlot,” Bijaz said. “She is vulgar, witty, knowledgeable to a depth that terrifies, cruel when she is most kind, unthinking while she thinks, and when she seeks to build she is as destructive as a coriolis storm.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
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