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But the girl doesn’t slow, doesn’t look back; she doesn’t want to see the life that stands there, waiting. Static as a drawing. Solid as a tomb. Instead, she runs.
Never pray to the gods who answer after dark.
Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.
“I gave you what you asked for, Adeline. Time, without constraint. Life without restriction.” “You cursed me to be forgotten.” “You asked for freedom. There is no greater freedom than that. You can move through the world unhindered. Untethered. Unbound.”
“You are a stubborn thing. But even rocks wear away to nothing.”
Blink and half your life is gone.
“Small places make for small lives. And some people are fine with that. They like knowing where to put their feet. But if you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
“Do you think a life has any value if one doesn’t leave some mark upon the world?”
Ideas are wilder than memories.
You are perfect, because you don’t exist.
How does a ceiling bring you closer to heaven? If God is so large, why build walls to hold Him in?
Ideas are wilder than memories.
Ideas are wilder than memories.
Everything changes, foolish girl. It is the nature of the world. Nothing stays the same.
“Immortality breeds a high tolerance for risk.” “There are things worse than death,”
“There is always a cost,”
