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There were many productive, rational ways to use my magic. Summoning the ghost of my ex-girlfriend on the anniversary of our breakup wasn’t one of them.
“My grandfather, a small but fat man who resembles a walking roly-poly, may or may not accompany her. He doesn’t recall that he died many years ago. I remind him sometimes, at which points he sits down in an old easy chair in the living room and stares at the hutch where his television used to be.”
― Ashes and Entropy
― Ashes and Entropy
“Because once you can’t level up – once you fail yourself – once you let your weakness win – what good are you? What worth do you have?”
― Ashes and Entropy
― Ashes and Entropy
“All we can hope for in life is to know one's own desires in order to be able to act on them. To want is to surrender to uncertainty. To step into the unknown. To expose ourselves to all possible outcomes and trust we will not be destroyed by disappointment.”
― Hungerstone
― Hungerstone
“I realized what it was about her that seemed so different now: her skin was barely thick enough to contain a human soul. And underneath she was all flesh, no blood. Pulseless meat on a butcher’s block. One of those preserved cadavers propped up in a science exhibit, calf muscles forever engaged, a display of the naked wonder of the human body at full gallop.”
― Ashes and Entropy
― Ashes and Entropy
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