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Lucía
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He’d started that little speech speaking normally and he ended it shouting. In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
— Jan 11, 2026 02:34AM
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Lucía
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Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.
— Jan 11, 2026 08:36AM
Lucía
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Now he had answers, but they weren’t doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren’t making things simpler or easier. They weren’t helping.
— Jan 11, 2026 08:08AM
Lucía
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“You can’t just decide to be happy.”
“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”
— Jan 11, 2026 04:16AM
“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”
Lucía
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He wasn’t even ashamed. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn’t matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.
— Jan 11, 2026 01:29AM
He wasn’t even ashamed. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn’t matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.
Lucía
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaging in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold and immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence.
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— Jan 11, 2026 01:29AM
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Lucía
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What was he missing? Or was it him? If he wasn’t happy even here, even now, did the flaw lie in him? As soon as he seized happiness it dispersed and reappeared somewhere else. Like Fillory, like everything good, it never lasted. What a terrible thing to know.
— Jan 10, 2026 09:25AM
Lucía
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he would never get over it, but he’d figured out how to live with it. You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn’t, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn’t. Put it in perspective. Something like that. Or otherwise what was the point?
— Jan 10, 2026 06:15AM
Lucía
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They maneuvered around one another with the absolute confidence of people who had spent huge amounts of time together, who trusted and loved one another and who knew how to show one another off to best advantage and how to curb each other’s boring and annoying habits.
— Dec 31, 2025 06:21AM
Lucía
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He was one of those superficially jolly people whose jolliness didn’t quite reach all the way up to his eyes.
— Dec 28, 2025 01:40PM
Lucía
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He spoke very correctly, as if he wished he had an English accent but wasn’t quite pretentious enough to affect one.
— Dec 28, 2025 05:47AM
