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My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is
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“THE HEGEMONY CONSUL sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.
"You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
"You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.”
― All Our Wrong Todays
― All Our Wrong Todays
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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