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“His theory is that in order to function, most people have to ignore reality, or at least most of it. Otherwise, all of the horrible things in life—child slavery, acts of war, the pesticides jam-packed into every other bite of food you put in your mouth, knowing that you’re a day closer to dying when you open your eyes each morning—would be so overwhelming that no one would ever get out of bed.”
― Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
― Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
“suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.”
― Wasteland
― Wasteland
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.”
― Extinction Evolution
― Extinction Evolution
“Integrity isn’t something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don’t.”
― When Never Comes
― When Never Comes
“To give so much of yourself to a cause, to believe in something so wholeheartedly, so blindly, that you willingly suffer the scars, and you do not complain when the little parts of you are chipped away. You keep telling yourself that it is for a greater good, that there is a higher purpose. And you do not think to read deeper until there is so little of you left that you cannot survive without it and be the same person. And it is then, when The Cause, with its greedy mouth, tries to take more from you, tries to take that part of you that you cannot give away, it is only then that you realize all of your sacrifices have been for nothing. You have given yourself to a fraud. And what is left to replace what has been taken is not a hero’s pride but a bitter emptiness that sours even that last little core of yourself that you cling to.”
― Fractured
― Fractured
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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