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“Every memorial and museum to atrocity already contains its failure.”
― Ordinary Notes
― Ordinary Notes
“A home is an origin story. A home is a thing to carry. A home is a wild field of energy that floods floods floods. Call me. Call me home.”
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“When the onset of universal night is finally acknowledged as irreversible even the coldest cynic will be astonished at the celerity with which every rule and stricture shoring up this creaking edifice is abandoned and every aberrancy embraced. It should be quite a spectacle.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
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