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“Plus, here’s the thing. A kiss doesn’t need to be good to be valuable. It doesn’t serve any real purpose. It’s valued solely because of the person you share it with. Things only have the value we give to them. And likewise, actions can be worth whatever we decide them to be worth. And so, to these two, that kiss was priceless.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“No good digging your heels in, fighting for the old world when the old world's already gone. All you can do is live in the new world, however strange it might be. Try to make it a better place for the people who live in it.”
― Perilous Times
― Perilous Times
“Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“You’d be surprised how common the name Doug is across worlds. Oh, some spell it ‘Dug’ or ‘Duhg’ but it’s always around. Regardless of local linguistics, parents eventually start naming their kids Doug. I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient sapient life was a group of pancake-like beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you not, one was named Doug. Though admittedly it had a very distinctive smell when the word was “spoken”. Doug is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wake up call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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