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"sorry but Blue is so gross - "i can't not flirt"?? "I know you want me"??? "pls don't change your mind"???. EW. I just want to know what happened to Mable, everything else can get in the bin." — 23 hours, 30 min ago
"sorry but Blue is so gross - "i can't not flirt"?? "I know you want me"??? "pls don't change your mind"???. EW. I just want to know what happened to Mable, everything else can get in the bin." — 23 hours, 30 min ago
The woods folded in around them, dark trees as old as the forest, with long limbs that stretched above their heads, creating a canopy that blocked out the sky. A shadow world. Dark, dead of sound and light. The path they followed twisted
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“... resentment buried is not gone. It is like burying a seed: for a season it may stay hidden in the dark, but in the end, it will always grow.”
― The Witchfinder's Sister
― The Witchfinder's Sister
“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“And God,
please let the deer
on the highway
get some kind of heaven.
Something with tall soft grass
and sweet reunion.
Let the moths in porch lights
go some place
with a thousand suns,
that taste like sugar
and get swallowed whole.
May the mice
in oil and glue
have forever dry, warm fur
and full bellies.
If I am killed
for simply living,
let death be kinder
than man.”
―
please let the deer
on the highway
get some kind of heaven.
Something with tall soft grass
and sweet reunion.
Let the moths in porch lights
go some place
with a thousand suns,
that taste like sugar
and get swallowed whole.
May the mice
in oil and glue
have forever dry, warm fur
and full bellies.
If I am killed
for simply living,
let death be kinder
than man.”
―
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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