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Things with names didn’t turn up cracked and ground against the rocky shoreline. Things with names survived. He would be a Thing with a name.
“Find someone who loves you the way my girlfriend pushes me off a cliff. Without hesitation. With full confidence in your abilities, with the rock-steady belief that your relationship can handle it, and with complete faith that when you come out of the water, assuming you survive, you will totally forgive them for the push. Almost certainly forgive them. Probably.
Bonus points if you find someone with enough chutzpah to say Bon Voyage while they do it.”
― The Chalice of the Gods
Bonus points if you find someone with enough chutzpah to say Bon Voyage while they do it.”
― The Chalice of the Gods
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“When I imagine my ingredients, I imagine that my muscles are made of plums, that my heart is a giant ruby with a light bulb in it, that my blood is goldenrod yellow, and the bones inside my body are made from lions' bones and shells, and that my brain is made of steak and silk and Hawaiian Punch.”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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