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“Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.”
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.”
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
― Water for Elephants
― Water for Elephants
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
“On the fifth night of our search, I see a plesiosaur. It is a megawatt behemoth, bronze and blue-white, streaking across the sea floor like a torpid comet. Watching it, I get this primordial deja vu, like I'm watching a dream return to my body. It wings towards me with a slow, avian grace. Its long neck is arced in an S-shaped curve; its lizard body is the size of Granana's carport. Each of its ghost flippers pinwheels colored light. I try to swim out of its path, but the thing's too big to avoid. That Leviathan fin, it shivers right through me. It's a light in my belly, cold and familiar. And I flash back to a snippet from school, a line from a poem or a science book, I can't remember which: 'There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction'.”
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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