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“The pain is of our own making, Kira.” He pressed a finger against her forehead. “It only hurts as much as we let it.”
Eighty-eight days in FTL just to be subjected to bad puns? Where was the justice in that?
“The path to our goal is rarely straight. It tends to turn and twist, which makes the journey far more enjoyable than it would otherwise be.”
One could argue that all that really matters is that we learn to deal with where we are at any given moment, not where we were.”
Violence is a tool. Nothing more, nothing less.
“Well done. Most excellent!”
“I was in fractures before. I am in fractures now. But the pieces still form the same broken picture.”
It was a similar feeling to jumping in a descending elevator.
One more moment. I screamed, though I have no mouth to scream. I wept, though I have no eyes for tears.
To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.”
“Beware the temptation of false hope,”
Ah, the untempered idiocy of youth.
Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.
“Could I advise myself in the past, prior to my transition, I would tell myself to make the most of what I had while I had it. Too often we don’t appreciate the value of something until it has slipped our grasp.”
“We are all kings and queens of our own dementia. The only question is how we rule.
There were, she thought, many different types of nightmares in the galaxy. Some small, some large, but the worst of all were the ones you lived with.
He was attractive in a rather solid, dark, hairy way.
“. . . the meaning of life, Kira, is moving things from point a to point b. That’s it. That’s all we really do.”
Deo duce, ferro comitante.
Boom! went his grenade launcher. Brrt! went her guns. Bzzt! went its lasers.
“My ass may be amazing, but it’s not that amazing.”
The salted taste of his skin. The feel of his body pressed against her own. His warmth inside her.
Had she/he/it a mouth, they would have screamed.
“May your path always lead to knowledge.” “Knowledge to freedom.” —ENTROPIC LITANY
