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all clear. It all made sense. Who was that guy we’d read in my philosophy class last semester? That existentialism guy? He was right. Every one of us was alone. Even if you were someone’s identical twin.
“If we were all the same species, there was little hope for us; that nothing we ever did in the daytime would bleach out what some of us were capable of at night.”
― The Straw Men
― The Straw Men
“If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of us were born with huge- ass shoulders to carry the load. Clearly, we weren’t made to carry the weight of the world, kinda makes you wonder why we do it anyway, huh?”
― Toxic
― Toxic
“He had never told her how the school kitchen had been like the land of giants...his mother was in charge of bringing the world down to scale”
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“Gems were a way of showing your status, and his wife had always been a perfect model for everything he wanted to display.”
― The Thread
― The Thread
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