TomeStackTom

“War es etwas Neues, daß es auf dieser Welt Unvereinbares, Widersinniges, Widersprüchliches gab - oder daß Zufall und Verhältnisse das menschliche Schicksal bestimmten?”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The night sky shouldn't be so dark, If the Universe is endless, then starlight should fill all the empty spaces. Light doesn't stop until it hits a surface - so why the dark spaces? From where we stand on Earth, all we should see is light."
"Maybe the universe isn't limitless, then," Alice had said.
"Or the universe is expanding, And the stars are too young, and all that distant light is still stretching to reach us. And until it does the night lies dark.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Die eine Hälfte der Welt begreift nicht, worüber sich die andere Hälfte freut.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“You know how some parents, when their kid is cranky, or messing around when it's time to go somewhere - you know how some parents say okay, then, I'm leaving without you! Bye! And they leave the playground, or whereever? They maybe even go a ways down the street until their kid comes crying and running behind them, begging not to be abandoned, promising to be good. My mom was that mom.

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But there are other parents who would never do that to a kid. They would scold the kid, maybe, or coax the kid, or pick the kid up, or even get mad, but they wouldn't threaten to leave a little person they're responsible for.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart