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“The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. And so
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“The gnome held up some rather small handbells and waved them nervously. They went glingleglingleglingle, in a very sad way. ‘Good, eh? That was me. I’m the Glingleglingleglingle Fairy.’ ‘Get out.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“Everything changed, and it went right on changing. A terrible thought when things were good, a comforting one now. Whatever happened, she could be certain that things wouldn’t stay the way they were now. And if she stayed smart and clever and lucky, she’d be able to affect how the next change came. Or take advantage of it.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
“However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It’s expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
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