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*hisses* NO. leave him alone. get a job!!

"Not that she'd been safe there. But the habits of memory created all kinds of false harbors."

*narrows my eyes at the hip-hop manga the mangaka drew in the past* so they won an award for that, huh...

"Nona was so grateful to have had a whole six months of this. It was greedy to expect much longer."

"And Carmentum was just as it had been before the Yikalese had built it - a ruin at the end of the world, silent and alone."

"Glorian tried to find the words she wanted to express. I will make you proud. I am afraid. I love you, even if I do not think you love me half as much. I will never treat my daughter the way you have treated me."

"Hi, I liked kissing you, but for complicated reasons I need to run away and commit crimes, sorry. Also, in another universe I failed you in every possible way and never even noticed, so it's weird now. Bye!"

"Since language and identity are closely intertwined in human culture, a society seeking to eradicate individual cultural identities and histories in favor of a fictitious pan-Terran 'cause' must begin by robbing its people of their language."

"There was no policy of genocide: there was instead a sincere belief that it was God who in His infinite and inscrutable wisdom had 'this sharp but effectual remedy', this fearful instrument, to punish the Irish for their popery, to purge them for their irredeemable idleness-" do. do you. do you hear yourself right now

"You can feel when someone takes delight in you, and Aqib felt that, so it seemed alright."

"But there is a last time for everything we do in this life. And, like anyone unlucky enough to be born into this world, I had just been carefree and young for the last time without knowing it."

"But few of us ever get our way in this world. We accommodate what life gives us and do our best to retain some sense of ourselves."

"A star falling the wrong way: that's how she left me."

"'When all we have are these brief spans between our nonexistences, why not make the most of the life you're living now? The price is worth it.'"

"It was a quality of jealousy that you could only feel it for people who were like you. Ouyang could no more be jealous of Esen than he could be of the sun. But Ouyang and Lord Wang were alike. For a moment they stood there in bitter acknowledgement of it, feeling that likeness ringing through the space between them."

"The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first."

"'I'm her guide,' the magician said importantly. The unicorn made a soft, wondering sound, like a cat calling her kittens. Molly laughed aloud, and made it back."

"Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl."

"Take me with you, for laughs, for luck, for the unknown."

"When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be."

"What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?"

"There was the memory of death in the darkness, dream-death, but not any falser for its oneiric nature."

"Ah, there is none more fearful of thieves than the one who has stolen something, and a kingdom is no small something."

"What an entirely lovely and spiteful creature she was, her mortal beginnings forgotten, the imprint of a shell in the sand long erased."

"Besides, you have an unfortunately brave and kind heart."

"What people need to live is other people."

"'Because without a name for it, it's just something I am. A part of life. Once it's got a name, I know that means someone has studied it, dissected it, pulled it apart. When something has a name, they can say it's bad,' said Vern, and she didn't want to hear anybody else's thoughts on what was bad anymore."

"Vern reached out to squeeze Lucy's hand. Lucy squeezed back. In her mind, Vern said the words, 'I love you, I miss you.' Lucy put down the book, turned to Vern, and said, 'I like living inside of you.'"

"'That's one powerful flower,' said Howling. 'Flowerful.' That cracked him up."

"Though they were both pleased to hear it, she wasn't sure it was a compliment. They were both her raw parts, her every sensitivity."