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‘You fight your hatred for yourself, anyone can see, and you do your best, taking it out in people who you think will be strong enough to handle it. I understand this. I am the same. It is hard but it is bearable if your love for me is bigger than your hate.’
— Aug 26, 2024 10:44PM
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She cannot be with him. She cannot be without him. And both are burningly, simultaneously true in a way that grinds the cliché into dust.
— Aug 31, 2024 05:25PM
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‘To be human is to yearn, I think. To want. To need. What you already have, most of the time. It kind of poisons everything.’
‘But it is a sweet-tasting poison?’
‘Sometimes.’
— Aug 31, 2024 11:22AM
‘But it is a sweet-tasting poison?’
‘Sometimes.’
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‘No, a story is not an explanation, it is a net, a net through which the truth flows. The net catches some of the truth, but not all, never all, only enough so that we can live with the extraordinary without it killing us.’
— Aug 29, 2024 09:26PM
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‘The purpose of a volcano is to die, my lady, but as angrily as possible.’
— Aug 29, 2024 09:12PM
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A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.
— Aug 09, 2024 07:32PM
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But the unlikeliness of it all also meant that he wouldn’t have had that moment of staring up into the sky, a moment where he had been the only person who had ever lived in all of glorious creation.
— Aug 09, 2024 07:27PM
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Roy was a year older, a year taller, a year wiser, all of which was proved by the fact that he had a bike.
— Aug 09, 2024 07:19PM
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What actually woke him was the unearthly sound itself - a mournful shatter of frozen midnight falling to earth to pierce his heart and lodge there forever, never to move, never to melt - but he, being who he was, assumed it was is bladder.
— Jul 11, 2024 01:35PM
