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Ngl struggling to finish this after the whole child vampire thing, but I keep coming back for Rice's writing. There's just something about it

"He had assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker."

ffs 🤦🏽

“I haven’t really ever known anybody. You see how I didn’t understand you. I’m cut off. Can’t get in. Never will. It would be silly for me to think about a partnership. That sort of thing is for . . . for human beings. . . .”

SHHHHHH

"The trouble with you, Shev, is you don’t say anything till you’ve saved up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments, and then you dump them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap—"

same

how did i miss this 🥲

feeling full of love for me(we)