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people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
‘that which the sea breaks against,’
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
“I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
“Night falls fast. Today is in the past,”
everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow—that, in short, we are all going.
“I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.”
‘Everything that comes together falls apart,’”
“Don’t ever do anything like that again,” he said. “But, Lord, ‘subverting the patriarchal paradigm’—it’s like she wrote the speech.” He smiled and closed the door.
Did I help you toward a fate you didn’t want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? Because they are different crimes,
If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.
because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
