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Joey the Bookworm
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""The human creature is such a deceptively simple thing to look at. You can watch someone peel an orange or trip up a flight of stairs, and forget that inside they are both strange and infinite. Take a human by the wrist and you have in your hand a piece of unending longing."" — Nov 20, 2025 06:12PM
""The human creature is such a deceptively simple thing to look at. You can watch someone peel an orange or trip up a flight of stairs, and forget that inside they are both strange and infinite. Take a human by the wrist and you have in your hand a piece of unending longing."" — Nov 20, 2025 06:12PM
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"“Friends together! Mice forever!”
Shouldn’t it be the other way around, though? Mice together, friends forever? The characters being mice forever isn’t exactly a question." — Nov 18, 2025 07:39AM
"“Friends together! Mice forever!”
Shouldn’t it be the other way around, though? Mice together, friends forever? The characters being mice forever isn’t exactly a question." — Nov 18, 2025 07:39AM
“Do not wait for people to be faultless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway. Such things are worth more than riddles.”
― Impossible Creatures
― Impossible Creatures
“But Christopher didn't have the words, then, to explain what, nonetheless, he knew: that sometimes, if you are among the very lucky, a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. 'It's a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we've chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship!”
― Impossible Creatures
― Impossible Creatures
“Do not wait for people to be flawless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway. (p. 169)”
― Impossible Creatures
― Impossible Creatures
“Stop expecting life to get easier. It never does; that is not where its goodness lies.”
― Impossible Creatures
― Impossible Creatures
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