Zana > Recent Status Updates

'“What’s the other option?” the second Nice House Experience said. “Look me in the eye and tell me there is a better solution than putting one single kid in the hole, and letting that one single kid have a miserable life, in return for the good lives of all of our children?”'

Throw all the kids in the hole duh

"And of course, it was true that the whole city literally ran on the load-bearing suffering child in a very real physical way that was not a metaphor. And everyone really liked having running power and no blackouts and good schools and low crime and community-oriented government and safe sidewalks and public transit that worked."

We're out here sacrificing kids and we still don't have all that 🇺🇸

"It went viral like a snuff film went viral or Kim Kardashian’s first sex tape went viral"

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"...even though we knew that there was a kid in the hole, now that’s three times as many kids in the hole, and it’s extra sad because we usually don’t kill the kid in the hole, they usually die of old age or malnutrition.

None of this mattered to the living third kid in the hole, who was not enjoying the hole experience."

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'They stormed the hole and broke the kid out and slit the kid’s throat on public television (as all television in Omelas was publicly funded), and they said, “Look at what sort of shit your beautiful city is built on!” and the kid bled out and it was extremely graphic to the point of being censored in later broadcasts....'

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'“Your circumstances are entirely different from my own,” Marta said coldly. “I shouldn’t have expected you to understand.”'

Sick and tired of this superficial bitch

'“We can’t make the climate change back, no matter why it changed in the first place. You and I can’t. The neighborhood can’t. We can’t do anything.”

I lost patience. “Then let’s kill ourselves now and be done with it!”'

Girl

"People toss us things sometimes—gifts of envy and hate: A maggoty, dead animal, a bag of shit, even an occasional severed human limb or a dead child. Dead adults have been left lying just beyond our wall."

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'Also, Donner has a plan for putting people back to work. He hopes to get laws changed, suspend “overly restrictive” minimum wage, environmental, and worker protection laws for those employers willing to take on homeless employees and provide them with training and adequate room and board.'

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'Different people frightened her in some deep, hard, ugly way. She didn’t like the Hsu family because they were Chinese and Hispanic, and the older Chinese generation is still Buddhist....

“Idolaters,” she would call them if none of them were around....'

Omg

There's so much infodumping for the worldbuilding but I don't hate it at all??

God I love a good post-apocalyptic story 😩

"Worse for me, they often have things wrong with them. They cut off each other’s ears, arms, legs.… They carry untreated diseases and festering wounds. They have no money to spend on water to wash with so even the unwounded have sores. They don’t get enough to eat so they’re malnourished—or they eat bad food and poison themselves...."

This is so intense

"...I saw at least three people who weren’t going to wake up again, ever. One of them was headless. I caught myself looking around for the head. After that, I tried not to look around at all."

Oh

“...I honestly thought you’d died months ago after abandoning my crew, given your tendency to make stupidly reckless choices.”

Damn 😬

"Because a captain determined to avenge the death of her ship is understandable, noble, even, but a crazy girl with amnesia obsessed with chasing after a whale is simply a crazy girl with amnesia obsessed with chasing after a whale."

It's gonna turn out she wasn't even on the ship when everyone got killed

"I would welcome death, if it wasn’t for my promise to Lenore Dove that I would somehow keep the sun from rising on the reaping. The impossibility of it adds to my despair...."

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So this book is literally about a rag-tag team hunting a flying data center in space?

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"She was 18 years old when my grandfather gave her to my mother as a gift, and when my family moved to the United States, we brought her with us."

Jesus

"...What do you say to the meanest girl in town who’s become your friend? No, more than a friend, really. A Newcomer. Being tributes and not killing each other . . . looking out for each other with no questions asked . . . that’s family, I guess."

Omg 😭

'“I guess the lava just burned up everything in its path?”

“No, it wasn’t even hot. It was some sort of gel that gave you chemical burns if it got under your clothes, then turned hard and slippery as ice on the ground.”'

Me on the outside: damn that's fucked up.

Me on the inside: damn that's cool

"Then I turn back to what I am meant to witness. A small white skeleton, stripped clean to the bone. No flesh or clothing remains, only an ax at its right side, my knife at its left. My lips move, but no sound comes out."

Aww 😭

“...Garish color, unflattering lines. And there are some fashion choices you people are going to regret. Why you’d want to resemble a barnyard animal is beyond me, but I hope those goat horns are removable. And to the woman with the diamonds implanted along her teeth? People age, there’s no shame in that, but I think those stones are going to make eating a trial when those gums recede.”

I love Maysilee lmao

Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman is definitely a mood

'Across the room, a glassy-eyed Magno has backed into a corner but managed to clear some space by freeing a six-foot snake from the cage and waving it around....

People are shrieking, and the Peacekeepers form a huddle to confer over their plan to subdue him. Drusilla looks overjoyed, shouting, “Take him down! Take him down!”'

Had to see who was playing him in the movie and it's Billy Porter 💀

'“Listen, I’m going to be a real jerk in my interview. It’s something my team worked up, but I will never hurt you, okay? Or any of the Newcomers. That’s a promise.”

“We know that,” says Wellie, eyes full of trust.

Too much trust. I need to distance myself from them for the good of everybody.'

Babies 🥺

“Listen, you lot, there are always softhearted dolts who will send supplies to losers like you, if they can find some way to relate to you....”

Me during Trump's patriot games next year

“They reaped him to kill him, Haymitch! To punish me! I can think of no realistic scenario in which he does not die. I can only hope that his death is quick and not in vain.”

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'“Oh, no, we’re University students, not Academy. I mean, we’re not seniors or anything,” says Vitus. “They all wanted better districts.”'

Dressing lambs for the slaughter for college credit is killing me

Well that's one way to make an entrance I guess 🫠

'“It smells like cooked cabbage in here.”

“In the old days, we used to put you in cattle cars,” the Peacekeeper replies, then locks us in.'

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