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“For humans — trapped in biology — there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage. Time destroyed us all soon enough. But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing — to break bonds stronger than the temporal — was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.”

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i could live in these pages forever

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”

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I LOOOVE THIS BOOK

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”