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some questions i have rn, i wanna see if they will be answered later or am i just bugged. “the choice to enlist may simply reflect the lack of alternatives” i know i am extremely privileged but is there truly a case where there is zero alternatives to enlisting? eg. case of saving up for college. maybe just work other entry level jobs? may take longer but the result would be similar or take a loan idk

some thoughts on libertarianis

i feel like maybe my level of acceptance is pretty high after reading this chapter, or maybe i have some pretty libertarian views. i feel as long as one is not affecting/imposing on others’ rights and freedoms, it is ok to do whatever they want? like the selling kidney and consensual cannibalism examples. maybe i’m cold blooded but i don’t see anything wrong in that 🥴

The night was a canyon, black and depthless; James ached for things he could not name or define.

“Death is a jealous mistress,” Lucie whispered. “She fights to keep you.”
“I am not hers,” he said. “I am yours for as long as I can be.”

“That love is complicated,” said Cordelia. “That it lies beside anger and hatred, because only those we truly love can truly disappoint us.”

yoooooo elias making my blood boil wtf

“I wish I could love, … but I seem to have lost the passion, and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget it.”

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.

Academic decathlon is one of my fav chapters, it’s so wholesome ♡

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty — unless she is wed to something more meaningful— is always superficial.

When you’re worried about something, have you tried thinking in a different language? (…) It slows you down. Keeps your thoughts from running wild. A good discipline in any circumstances.

If we attempt to order events too meticulously, to arrive at point X via a logical trail, it follows that the logical trial can be picked up at point X and followed back to us. Reason is always apparent to a discerning eye. But luck? It’s invisible, erratic, angelic. What could possibly be better, from our point of view, than allowing Bunny to choose the circumstances of his own death?

I remember thinking that I would never be a kid again, not really, which was the first time I can recall that intense longing for the you to whom you can never return to. Sarah Dessen once wrote that home is “not a place, but a moment”. Home is a teddy bear, but only a certain teddy bear at a certain time.

It is our attention that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.

even though i hate jacob grimes, this line is good without his condescension tho

Stop barrelling toward the end point, start lingering in the process. There’s so much that will reveal itself to you if you just pause and have a look around. Smell the roses! 🥀

All this time they’d both been drowning, and thinking the other was gloating at them from the shore.

Perhaps human intelligence was a mistake, and everyone who celebrated the escape from the Garden of Eden was wrong. Perhaps the gift of rationality did not outweigh the debilitating agony that came with it.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity was only ever about following through.

“Those who had nothing substantial to brag about bragged the loudest. Stay silent and ignore the chattering crowd — this was proof you had something real to be proud of.”

“Everyone who wins say they were good, but they’re the ones who write the history. I haven’t seen anything indicating that it was actually moral superiority that made a difference,”

“Everyone who wins say they were good, but they’re the ones who write the history. I haven’t seen anything indicating that it was actually moral superiority that made a difference,”

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“There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads in to fortune,” he said. “On such a full sea are we now afloat, /And we must take the currents when it serves / Or lose our ventures. Ladies and gentlemen, never waste a moment.”

I did not want to face the truth. I don’t want to face it now. But it is my duty. I cannot afford the comfort of lies.

Hope may raise you up for a time, but when it is disappointed, the fall is all the more acute.

Beauty imbued every action with a sort of glamour and made it easy to forgive.