Shonari

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Bottom line: the world we know is eminently fragile. And that’s when it is working to design. Today’s economic landscape isn’t so much dependent upon as it is eminently addicted to American strategic and tactical overwatch. Remove the Americans, and long-haul shipping degrades from being the norm to being the exception. Remove mass consumption due to demographic collapses and the entire economic argument for mass integration collapses. One way or another, our “normal” is going to end, and end soon.”
― Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―Irreverent Predictions from a Geopolitical Strategist

“Belavierr, Stitch Witch, Spider of Terrandria, Witch of Webs, Temptress of Dragons, Thread Spinner, The greatest of witches to walk our waning world, welcome once more to the court of dusk, and the palace of shadows.”
― Pirateaba, Ghostsong

“A good story is just as good the second time around,” she said.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors