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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
“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
“My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“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
“Vampires do breathe, by the way, but their chests don't move like humans'. Have you ever lain in the arms of your sweetheart and tried to match your breathing to his, or hers? You do it automatically. Your brain only gets involved if your body is having trouble. Fortunately there was nothing about this situation that was like being in the arms of a sweetheart except that I was leaning against someone's naked chest. I could no more have breathed with him than I could have ignited gasoline and shot exhaust out my butt because I was sitting in the passenger seat of a car.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
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