“I am terrified of you, Your Excellency,” she said, using the word for “terror” which, in poetry, could also mean “awed.” The sort of adjective that was applied to atrocities or divine miracles. Or emperors, which Mahit assumed were in many
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“WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE IS BETTER THAN WHAT YOU SO DESPERATELY SEEK”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“We can’t go back, not ever, not even for a minute. We are so lucky. Life is so good. We’re going on and being alive and being shitty sometimes and lovely sometimes just the same as we always have, and only a Fuckwit couldn’t see that.”
― The Past Is Red
― The Past Is Red
“The world as it is is enough.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“He was definitely saying something. That we could become something magnificent, or at least interesting. That we began as we still are now, child geniuses. That there is no other home for us than here. That we will cope no matter how stupid things get. That all couples are odd couples. That the only catastrophe that can’t be undone is extinction. That we can make a good place. That people can take their fate in their hands. That there is no such thing as fate.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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