“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
“I’m not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.”
“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.”
“Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.”
“«Perhonen is not here anymore,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whispers.”
“It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik’s cubes while trying to solve them at the same time. And every time I drop one, God kills a billion kittens.”
“Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.”
“In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.”
“The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.”
“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”
“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A”
“True stories do not always end,’ Sumanguru”
“You found the memories. But there was another you who tried to take them. So you trapped him in a prison, and only got out with a box with a god in it. And a memory that said that you needed to go to Earth.”
“There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then”
“There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.”
“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”
“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the consequences?”
“What a conceited ass. I like eye candy as much as the next girl, but you soon learn the truth about candy." ~ Jay
He laughs louder this time. "What? That it melts in your mouth and not in your hand?" ~ Kane”
“When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.”
“Las grandes esperanzas que se tienen en la vida a veces se transforman en pequeñas piedras con las que se puede tropezar.”
“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in his bed. A burdened breath escaped his lungs, and he rolled to his side.
So precious and already so damaged.”
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