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"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM
"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM
“If determination alone is not enough, it simply means you are trying to solve the wrong problem. We just have to figure out the right problem, and then we can succeed.”
“Can I call it haunted when I'm every ghost?”
― A Long Time Dead
― A Long Time Dead
“Junklord videos are pure consumerist pornography: a fantasy of endless 'stuff' in a world that's rapidly running out of resources.”
― Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence
― Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence
“I didn't want to have to pour concrete around my heart in an attempt to shield me from the blast.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“Poppy knew of Pandora, of Psyche, of Bluebeard's wife--all women punished for their fatal curiosity. But this was her house and she was Poppy Cavendish. No door nor morality tale could stop her. After all, she couldn't read.”
― A Long Time Dead
― A Long Time Dead
“Her muscles had locked and released, seized and spasmed and twisted, Her organs had become a frightened mouse, her body the powerful snake digesting it.”
― A Long Time Dead
― A Long Time Dead
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