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“My existence has been all about silencing life but until now I have not dared to entertain that wholly mortal-age question of what lies beyond the silence. Such elaborate ideas those mortals had! Heaven and hell—nirvana and Valhalla, reincarnation, haunting, and so many underworlds…Mortals were the children of extremes. Either death was sublime, or it was unthinkable—such a mélange of hope and terror…”
— Sep 04, 2025 07:35PM
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Danielle
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“You are a terrible person,” the Thunderhead said. “You are a wonderful person.”
“Well, which is it?” Greyson demanded.
“Why can’t you see that the answer is both?”
— Sep 18, 2025 07:46PM
“Well, which is it?” Greyson demanded.
“Why can’t you see that the answer is both?”
Danielle
is on page 385 of 625
“It was, he had come to realize, a matter of evolution. Not natural selection, because nature had become weak and toothless. Intelligent selection was more like it, with Goddard and his acolytes at the helm of the intelligentsia.”
“Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect.”
— Sep 16, 2025 08:05PM
“Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect.”
Danielle
is on page 330 of 625
A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe.
You can’t expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.
— Sep 15, 2025 07:10PM
You can’t expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.
Danielle
is on page 274 of 625
“No one’s memories are ‘true.’ Ten people remember the same thing in ten different ways. Who I factually was doesn’t matter…I love who I am—probably wasn’t true before, or I never would’ve been supplanted.” It was not exactly circular logic. More like spiral. An accepted lie that spun upon itself until truth and fiction disappeared into a singularity of who the hell cares, as long as I’m happy?
— Sep 10, 2025 05:41PM
Danielle
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These glimpses of the future and the past are mind boggling.
— Sep 06, 2025 08:09PM
Danielle
is on page 152 of 625
“Was this what life was like in the mortal age? Feeling the finality of one’s own flesh at every turn? What a terrible way to exist.”
“In that moment the Thunderhead knew triumph in a way it had not known before. For it had defeated its own programming. It had experienced the wonder of the unknown. The flight was a harbinger of things to come.”
— Sep 05, 2025 08:06PM
“In that moment the Thunderhead knew triumph in a way it had not known before. For it had defeated its own programming. It had experienced the wonder of the unknown. The flight was a harbinger of things to come.”
