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Professor Grimes was not good at being dead, did not have the fortitude of mind, hadn’t come close to conquering Hell, and Alice found this deeply disappointing. It was all so unfair, she thought. You thought people were giants, and they devastated you by being so human.
— Dec 08, 2025 11:40PM
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“We’ve had a very bad time, and we didn’t get what we came for, and I feel we ought to get a refund.”
King Yama fell silent for a moment. She could not read his face. Slowly he said, “You feel you ought to get a refund from Hell.”
— Dec 09, 2025 12:49PM
“We’ve had a very bad time, and we didn’t get what we came for, and I feel we ought to get a refund.”
King Yama fell silent for a moment. She could not read his face. Slowly he said, “You feel you ought to get a refund from Hell.”
Morwen
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Clutch she did indeed, very tightly, for if she pressed hard enough, then she could make herself his shield and protect him from everything in the universe. What a miracle a person was, she thought. They took up so little space. The difference between presence and absence was not even a square meter of matter. Yet now that Peter was here, the whole world shone brighter.
— Dec 09, 2025 12:42PM
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Ok this is turning out better than I expected from the beginning BY FAR. Ijusr need Peter back and I'll be happy. Please please please.
— Dec 08, 2025 03:13PM
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Alice watched his grayness undulating around the fire and wondered what it was like to exist so long that your practical identity was no longer hinged to a time or a place, but a question.
— Dec 08, 2025 01:36PM
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“Marks.” Gradus chuckled. “No, they don’t tell you anything unless you’ve passed. We don’t get revisions. We receive no feedback whatsoever. We just wait in anticipation forever and ever, until hope turns to panic to disappointment. If you hear nothing, then you must assume you’ve failed. Only there’s never confirmation, and timelines here mean nothing, and so it’s up to you when to extinguish your own hope.”
— Dec 08, 2025 09:41AM
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She sensed its inner sin—a biting, evil thing; that force that poisoned bonds, turned friend against friend and kin against kin. She could only describe that feeling as a violation; the sharpest, severest pain, that which pierced in her inner depths where she felt most safe.
— Dec 08, 2025 06:53AM
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This is the source of our unease. A paradox means that somewhere along the path, we have gotten something deeply, terribly wrong.
— Dec 08, 2025 01:59AM
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And Alice—who stood stock-still with his brains and skull fragments and blood splattered across her face—could not stop laughing. For a way out had opened up after all. And it seemed the most hilarious thing in the world, in that instant, that it nevertheless led straight to Hell.
— Dec 07, 2025 02:06PM
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It’s nowhere so neat. Karma is more like—hm. You might say karma is like a seed. Seeds grow into fruit. Karma is a natural consequence. Badness accrues. It affects the way you live your life, how you perceive the world. When you do evil things, you see the world as petty and selfish and cruel. And what you experience in Hell is just the final ripple effect of your original evil.
— Dec 07, 2025 12:38PM
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Dec 09, 2025 12:00AM
Such a great quote😂--so much in this novel made me laugh out loud. I love her prose
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Em wrote: "Such a great quote😂--so much in this novel made me laugh out loud. I love her prose"The academia was a bit extreme, but I'm loving it more every page!
Yes, she definitely makes it clear that it's an academia parody. I do know people who have about near destroyed their health for 1st in their class or for ivy placements.
Em wrote: "Yes, she definitely makes it clear that it's an academia parody. I do know people who have about near destroyed their health for 1st in their class or for ivy placements."Ah I went in blind so I didn't know all that, but even if there was a lot of complex academic complex thrown in (I guess that's what makes a lot of people feel like reading it is a bit of a chore), I quite enjoyed it. Retained and understood what I could and didn't worry about the rest
