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“The bees will bring back the rain.”

“It is a kind of power to embrace ugliness and its possibility of expression, so much more imaginative than beauty.”

“Mystery is a welcome change in a life that has been full of waiting.”

“Look around. Look at everyone else. They wish they were us.”

“Don’t let them see you hurt.”

“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”

“People need bureaucracy to give them time to think before they do something stupid.”

“You love each other until you can’t live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you can’t live without each other.”

“All of this is recorded somewhere. It is history.”

“All of this is recorded somewhere. It is history.”

- from “The Deathbird”

“High in the bloody sky, the Deathbird circled.”

“High in the bloody sky, the Deathbird circled.”

“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”

“The terror will not end.”

“Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean. Maybe it’s better for a man to stay inside his own mind.”

“Surely this was Hell.”

Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe reference spotted.

“It is a timeless tale of cunning and courage, but also a lesson, still very much pertinent today, about how deforestation, industrialization, and colonization can upset the fragile balance of cultures and ecosystems alike, creating unseen pressures that, at a certain point, must find their release.

Sometimes even in the form of a man-eating tiger.”

“The Champawat was not an incident of nature gone awry—it was in fact a man-made disaster.”

“It is colonialism, undeniably, and the onslaught of environmental destruction that it almost universally heralds, that served as the primary catalyst in the creation of our man-eater.”

“…436 human lives taken by a single animal. To put that grisly number into contemporary perspective, the entire roster of the National Basketball Association evens out at around 450 players. So essentially—according to most published accounts—the Champawat very nearly consumed the entire NBA.”

“She had learned to cry almost without tears now, for practical reasons.”

“Life doesn’t always turn out the way you expect.”

“Sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy, either.”

“Drugs are a sort of dusk that grant us the illusion that we’re the ones who decide when the light goes out, but that power never belongs to us. The darkness takes us whenever it likes.”

“Some people want to decide for themselves how happy they are.”

“…it’s very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”

“Natural beauty doesn’t exist here—it’s created.”

“There’s something ugly about this town…”