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Damn The Sun is OP, might need a nerf in the next patch

"At ten past eleven he threw down his pen and admitted defeat. He rubbed his hot eyes with the cushions of his palms till his head filled with colours.

'Fuck it,' he said."

"He was aware, suddenly, that he had lived in a tiny corner of the world, and that the rest of it, the Third, Fourth and Fifth Worlds, were pressing at his lying back, hungry and irrevocable."

"Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of. The memories were in a way like the road. Here it was real and hard and tangible. But that early road, that nine in the morning road, was far back and meaningless."

"'Well, here we go,' McVries said at his elbow.

'Good luck, everyone.'"

I'm only adding this partly as a joke and partly as a cry for help

"So many masks. Was she the only one with no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind? If not, then perhaps she had no place in this game of *appearances*; perhaps Boone and Decker were the true lovers here, swapping blows and faces but *necessary* to each other."

"And the Air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside."

"He drew on his cigarette again, and the dark smoke took his face from view.

'What's below,' he said from behind the veil, 'remains below.'"

"I was born alive. Isn't that punishment enough?"

"'But what about my punishment?' Rahel said. 'You haven't given me my punishment!'

'Some things come with their own punishments,' Baby Kochamma said. As though she was explaining a sum that Rahel couldn't understand."

"His cremation was attended by all the boxers in Bengal. A congregation of mourners with lantern jaws and broken noses."

"Not old.

Not young.

But a viable die-able age."

"You still owe me twelve hundred dollars!"

"Charge it to the Lord, heathen!"

"When the pain dulled into a steadily beating drum, a new section of my brain opened, like a sped-up video of a stream of water carving out a groove in rock over eons. A new pathway. I wasn't afraid anymore. I wanted desperately to fight again."

"I want to die. I think I always have."

"Hm."

Gabe squinted.

"We'll revisit that. Keep going."

"However, while these stories are outstanding works across multiple genres, they may contain outdated cultural representations and language."

ay Dios

"...and to pull it out when you are ready. (You will have to wrestle a little with the swollen wood.)"

who knew that cider could be 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

“It’s customary,” the guardian went on, “to bring an offering.” The pale sac of his throat pulsed again. “I’m rather fond of sweets,” he added, meaningfully.

I love this big magical frog

"The battalions of colonized people were subjects at the Empire’s disposal, and if the slogan of mercenaries is 'The world is our country,' that of the colonial soldiers might be 'The Empire is our grave.'"

if you made a drinking game about how many times this dude references a secret sniper team that killed JFK, you'd be in the throes of acute liver failure before hitting the halfway mark

Adding this to my goodreads so I can remember to actually fill this out

broke: 'wow, I'm just like Patrick Bateman'
woke: 'wow, I'm just like Ove"

"The struggle to breathe, Fanon insisted, points toward liberation, in no small part because fire, too, needs oxygen."

"In 1956 the journal Howe edited, Dissent, condemned the 'combined attack on Egypt' as 'immoral.' Although truly standing alone, Israel was also taken to task for 'cultural chauvinism,' a 'quasi-messianic sense of manifest destiny,' and 'an undercurrent of expansionism.'"

This was only 8 years after the Nakba.

"To the extent that authority arrogates to itself a monopoly on exercising violence, its return in the opposite direction is a transgression, an assertion of autonomy: ‘The right to violence is everywhere a privilege that authority enjoys and refuses to share with those under it.’"

it's simultaneously insane and mind-numbingly mundane that some American successfully ratfucked his way into making the world be okay with using weapons on civilians that are literally banned under the Geneva Conventions