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"Only a few pages in, but I'm already starting to understand for the first time what all the fuss is about being in space - specifically, seeing the earth from space." — Jul 10, 2025 12:40AM
"Only a few pages in, but I'm already starting to understand for the first time what all the fuss is about being in space - specifically, seeing the earth from space." — Jul 10, 2025 12:40AM
Like a child who obsessively colors within the lines, she had to regulate her every move or she might end up in the terrifying universe that lay beyond the shape she’d drawn to contain herself. “Why
“Boys are like that, always trying to pretend they're saving girls from something. They never seem to realize we can save ourselves.”
― Betty
― Betty
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness”
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“I realized then that not only did Dad need us to believe his stories, we needed to believe them as well. To believe in unripe stars and eagles able to do extraordinary things. What it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.”
― Betty
― Betty
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