“Is each room a decade?” Phoebe asks. She pictures each room having its own hairstyle. Its own war. Its own set of stock market triumphs and failures. Its own definition of feminism.
“That was what I'd always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn't move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. 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. That is all most animals do.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Sometimes a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Possibilities that lay in the past were illusions, closed doors, as meaningless as unfulfilled intentions.”
― Jade City
― Jade City
“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.”
― Garden Spells
― Garden Spells
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