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""There can be enough for each of us. There can be a home for each of us. There can be a role for each of us. The imperitive is transformation, and the goal is to thrive. Even if that's all we know, it's enough to get started."" — Feb 22, 2026 01:10AM
""There can be enough for each of us. There can be a home for each of us. There can be a role for each of us. The imperitive is transformation, and the goal is to thrive. Even if that's all we know, it's enough to get started."" — Feb 22, 2026 01:10AM
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""They wrote backward from the present--from what they saw as the pinnacle--to make the past a predestined prelude to the present. The story they told themselves, in other words, was one that was never intended to be factual; it was intended to be true, to reveal a hidden divine plan they saw for themselves, to demonstrate that they were inevitable."" — Jul 12, 2025 12:58PM
""They wrote backward from the present--from what they saw as the pinnacle--to make the past a predestined prelude to the present. The story they told themselves, in other words, was one that was never intended to be factual; it was intended to be true, to reveal a hidden divine plan they saw for themselves, to demonstrate that they were inevitable."" — Jul 12, 2025 12:58PM
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.”
― O cavalo e o seu rapaz
― O cavalo e o seu rapaz
“You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved”
― The Corinthian
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved”
― The Corinthian
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