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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
“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“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
“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
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