Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
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Read between June 28 - September 8, 2023
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You do not ████ the Alexander. The Alexander ████s you.
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One more outburst and I will rip out your eyeballs and skull████ you so hard you’ll wish your mama told your daddy she had a headache the night you got loaded into the launch tube.
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had no idea how safe I was, because I’d never been unsafe.
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I’d bet my leftie the little ███████ spent the next ten minutes thanking every god in the book, Allah all the way through to Yahweh.
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“Jesus Christ,” Sykes breathed. “Not sure he’s listening, chum,” McNulty said.
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I’d prefer a thousand bullets to a moment like this.
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fear is poison in battle.
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if your people have time for watercooler whispering, they’re not working hard enough.
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I should have been big enough to tell him what he meant to me. Now I get to tell him in 7 minute bursts.
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“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
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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.
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Mason, E, LT 2nd: until the last star in the galaxy dies Mason, E, LT 2nd: you have me
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Even the destitute have something they cling to, right?
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OH, POOR BABY. DID I HURT THE MASS-MURDERING PSYCHOPATHIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’S FEELINGS?” “YOU ARE MOCKING ME.”
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PART OF BEING ALIVE IS HAVING LIFE CHANGE US. THE PEOPLE AROUND US, THE EVENTS WE LIVE THROUGH, ALL OF THEM SHAPE US.
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She steps forward, one foot, then the other, and then he reaches her, and they come together with a crash. Her arms curl up around his neck, and his mouth finds hers like he’s drowning and she’s air, and her feet come clean off the ground as the world is forgotten. And they’re together.