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The little section about them nuking Antarctica has such a special place in my heart, it was so well written, sensitive, and such great speculative fiction

Ignore this…

“Stood in firelight, sweltering. Blood stain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.” holy shit man 😭

I hate when they are mean to him

Oh I KNOW Rorschach is stinky and uses two in one shampoo

“Abernathy will put down his fork, dab his lip, smile patriarchally and say: oh children. The only way one can endure is to endure. Knowing smile. Loving glance all around. Wisdom received. And he, the holder of resilience’s great secret.”

“This is how Jonathan Abernathy, wearing his sixty-six dollar suit, comes to be on his knees in the food court of an open-air mall, hat in literal hand.” I LOVVEEE HIMMM

I JUST realized they are British

“God exists and he’s American. If that statement starts to chill you after a couple moments consideration, then don’t be alarmed. A feeling of intense and crushing religious terror at the concept indicates only that you are still sane.”
Yesss I love you watchmen

“These people are callous and destructive. Cruel because cruelty is the point.”

I’m so ready for this

“If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
I crode

Starting again so I can read the sequel haha

“I know no matter what, I’m wonderful.”
Don’t pmo I love this book so much

I just know Sibling Dex is hot

“I love you so, I love you best. I will walk in you, and I will care for you, and I will bring the whole world to rejoice in you”

Another nonbinary character named Rowan or some bullshit ✌️

“You who are sixteen” YEAH MAN WE GET IT 🫩

Can he PLEASE stop mentioning his age I’m trying to forget 😭

Yeahhh I’m gonna go ahead and pretend the age gap isn’t thirty years :/

Something tells me there’s gonna be men

“What the world needed, in the end, was the change everything.”

No wonder this scared me so bad as a kid 😭

I’m so scared don’t even play

Is it rude to say I don’t think she said all that when she was 10 😭

I was rooting for pork fat, but I should’ve known she wasn’t long for this world