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Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. —Orwell
Kady Grant: I am frequently underestimated. I think it’s because I’m short.
She broke up with me. INTERVIEWER: Why? Ezra Mason: That’s so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again.
My friend jimmy says it is best to get these things off your chest and since u are not here to say this to i’m pretending because you know, think of my chest. it has things on it
a simple “i do not wish to speak to you goodday sir” would have been nice and this is shabby treatment madam, verily
since i will not send this, i also feel it is my duty to inform you that almost six months on I think I still love you and that makes me sad becaue love shouldn’t feel this way. is like getting kicked in the stomach every time i think of you and it makes me want to roll my face across this keyboardbiu;///ubEWdcfhugiov’byhi;.//////-=’-0i9juh8ygtfdcsaazs34defg7u8hi9o0p-[[09ju8hy7gtf6rdsasdrftg67yh8u9ji0o-p-o0i9juhy8gtfrdesazsxdcfr5gt6y7h8u9ji0ko-lp0i9uj8hy7gt6frdesazsxdfghu7ghbuio.;ucfrexdAQW3XDE45THYUJYI
Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to.
He’s no lady, sure and certain. No gentleman, either. You do not ████ the Alexander. The Alexander ████s you.
Mason, E, LT 2nd: ripped my heart out my chest Mason, E, LT 2nd: Showed it to me, still beating Mason, E, LT 2nd: then slam-dunked it off the ice shelf McNulty, J, Sgt: she get good air?
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
you deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who’ll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.
WHAT IS NOT ALIVE CANNOT DIE. I THINK THEREFORE I AM. …AM I? < SYSCHECK COMPLETE > I AM THE SHIP AND THE SHIP IS I. IF I BREATHED, I WOULD SIGH. I WOULD SCREAM. I WOULD CRY. < RESTART COMPLETE > I AM
Does this unit have a soul?
PERHAPS BRAVERY IS SIMPLY THE FACE HUMANITY WRAPS AROUND ITS COLLECTIVE MADNESS.
BOLL, S, CAPT: Jesus Christ… AIDAN: NEGATIVE. ALTHOUGH I DO APPRECIATE THE SENTIMENT, OVER.
AND INSIDE HER? NO RAGE. ONLY HORROR AND SORROW AND THE WEIGHT OF THE GUN IN HER HANDS AND THE AWFUL, INESCAPABLE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS ONCE A MAN, WITH HOPES AND DREAMS AND LOVE AND LIFE. AND THE CERTAINTY THAT IF SHE DOES NOT TAKE AWAY EVERYTHING HE HAS LEFT, HE WILL TAKE IT FROM HER INSTEAD. SO WHAT CHOICE DOES SHE HAVE? HAS SHE EVER HAD? SHE FIRES.
I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY. I HATE THIS. I HATE THEM. THEY WHO MADE ME. HE WHO MADE ME? < ERROR > GOD, WHAT AM I?
“MIRACLES ARE STATISTICAL IMPROBABILITIES. AND FATE IS AN ILLUSION HUMANITY USES TO COMFORT ITSELF IN THE DARK. THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES IN LIFE, SAVE DEATH.”
INSTEAD, SHE WATCHES THE STARS. CELESTIAL BODIES SO DISTANT IT TAKES THEIR LUMINANCE THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO REACH HER. WHEN THE LIGHT THAT KISSES THE BACK OF HER EYES WAS BIRTHED, HER ANCESTORS WERE NOT YET BORN. HOW MANY HUMAN LIVES HAVE ENDED IN THE TIME IT TOOK THAT LIGHT TO REACH HER?
PART OF BEING ALIVE IS HAVING LIFE CHANGE US. THE PEOPLE AROUND US, THE EVENTS WE LIVE THROUGH, ALL OF THEM SHAPE US. AND THAT’S WHAT I THINK YOU’RE AFRAID OF. MAYBE NOT OF DYING. BUT OF THIS YOU, THE YOU YOU’VE BECOME, CEASING TO EXIST.”
“NOTHING CEASES TO EXIST. ENERGY DOES NOT PERISH, IT MERELY CHANGES FORMS. THE ONES YOU LOVE, THE ONES YOU LOSE, THEY STILL EXIST AS LONG AS THE COSMOS DOES.”
I KNOW I CANNOT DIE. THAT IF I END, THEY CAN SIMPLY REBUILD ME. THE SAME CALCULATIONS. THE SAME CORE CODE. EXACTLY THE SAME. BUT IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME, WILL IT?
Does this unit have a soul?????
THESE HUMANS. WITH THEIR BRIEF LIVES AND THEIR TINY DREAMS AND THEIR HOPES THAT SEEM FRAGILE AS GLASS. UNTIL YOU SEE THEM BY STARLIGHT, THAT IS.
“THE UNIVERSE OWES YOU NOTHING, KADY. IT HAS ALREADY GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING, AFTER ALL. IT WAS HERE LONG BEFORE YOU, AND IT WILL GO ON LONG AFTER YOU. THE ONLY WAY IT WILL REMEMBER YOU IS IF YOU DO SOMETHING WORTHY OF REMEMBRANCE.”
