That was why people threw things in arguments. It wasn’t rage. It was the need to show the other person that, however things looked from the outside, something was broken and jagged.
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“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― The Paying Guests
― The Paying Guests
“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.”
― Red Doc>
― Red Doc>
“Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over.
‘One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full of short easy ones, Sophie,’ says Sugar. ‘It saves time and paper.’ Seeing that the child is unconvinced, she adds, ‘If books were written in such a way that every person, no matter how young, could understand everything in them, they would be enormously long books. Would you wish to read a book that was a thousand pages long, Sophie?’
Sophie answers without hesitation.
‘I would read a thousand million pages, Miss, if all the words were words I could understand.”
― The Crimson Petal and the White
‘One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full of short easy ones, Sophie,’ says Sugar. ‘It saves time and paper.’ Seeing that the child is unconvinced, she adds, ‘If books were written in such a way that every person, no matter how young, could understand everything in them, they would be enormously long books. Would you wish to read a book that was a thousand pages long, Sophie?’
Sophie answers without hesitation.
‘I would read a thousand million pages, Miss, if all the words were words I could understand.”
― The Crimson Petal and the White
“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― The Game of Kings
― The Game of Kings
“Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
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