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Sometimes it’s okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.
Agents from a vague yet menacing government agency
The sand underneath his plywood floor burned, like two worlds rubbing together.
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
She was fine limiting the people she knew to select hours of the day and then restricting them from other hours of the day when she could be by herself.
something in his demeanor made other people assume he was being sarcastic or false.
Plus, it is basic human nature to treat polite people worse than rude people. It is easier to assert dominance over a person unlikely to fight back with much force. Rude people tend to fight hard, and it’s not worth stirring them up.
Some people would stay nineteen years old for centuries without aging.
She maintained eye contact with the helicopter as far as eye contact could be made with a large flying machine, but tried not to show any interest or say anything that would encourage conversation.
You were ordered to ignore certain things and to stop doing other things. It seems you have continued to do things and pay attention to stuff.
Not everyone gets to do everything, and he knew that.
It was a diorama depicting the famous ending of The Wizard of Oz, in which a crying Dorothy floated over Kansas in a war balloon, firebombing it into a sterile wasteland.
There are moments in life in which it is made clear to us how vastly we have misunderstood.
Tourniquet was the hippest foodie hot spot in Night Vale. It was neither particularly hip nor culinarily groundbreaking, but it used enough of the terms and techniques to make everyone feel gratifyingly annoyed as they tried to just order some goddamn food.
What I remember feeling was that there was no way to reverse this. That I had crossed a threshold and there was no way to cross back out. It was the worst feeling in the world.
His palm was warm and dry.
“I was just putting out words to fill up the space.”
But the strangest part of it was that everyone here treated it as normal.
“That is how to be happy!” they would all shout, showing each other their teeth and feeling happy, in the simple way children can and adults spend years and much of their money trying to recapture even a moment of.
Hypothesis: Ice cream makes nothing better, but makes things feel like they’re better.
“Don’t Get Me Started on the Sex Scandals (Get Me Started on the Sex Scandals!)”
I’m a farmer, in case anyone didn’t know.”
As good as he was at writing, he knew he could be deeply unconvincing when speaking.
People in Night Vale are not comfortable with books in general, understanding that they are, in the best cases, wastes of time and, in the worst cases, traps left by the Secret Police to find out who the curious ones are so they can be removed from the population.
His universe was a kiss, and he explored that universe thoroughly.
“We all have many things we would have been good at,” said Darryl. “But we can only be what we end up being.”
She thought of Cecil with Carlos in the gym, and in this moment, she wanted to be a Cecil to someone, as she would want someone to be a Cecil to her.
In all the chaos around them, his smell reminded her of their time together in her bed, and so of being safe and in a pocket of darkness that belonged to her, within the sprawling darkness of the world.
He recognized them for what they were: humans, who were right about some things and wrong about other things and certain about everything.
A lifetime of physical emotion that he hadn’t expressed, all coming out of him. It felt like illness, but it was only existence.
Religion can be something you do, not something you believe.
We have different things. But we could do those different things side by side, in parallel, you know?”
