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Robert Helfst
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read in May 2013
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"This is far superior to the tv show - better character arcs and motivation. Most importantly, though, it's more hopeful. And that makes its conclusion all the more heartbreaking. Excited to pick up Compendium 2 in the near future." — May 03, 2013 07:34AM
"This is far superior to the tv show - better character arcs and motivation. Most importantly, though, it's more hopeful. And that makes its conclusion all the more heartbreaking. Excited to pick up Compendium 2 in the near future." — May 03, 2013 07:34AM
Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can’t vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it’s broken. Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don’t look back.
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this place without you. What I feel for you is more than love. It's stronger, peninsular. You connect me to the Mainland. You are my leg of land over dark water.”
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some reason they did try to hide their feelings, they generally exhibited all the guile of five-year-olds, who cannot imagine that the world sees them other than as they wish to be seen.”
― Lovecraft Country
― Lovecraft Country
“This is not for you.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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