“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”
― Odd Thomas
― Odd Thomas
“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― It
― It
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