“Change hurts, but it hurts most those who shackle themselves to the past.”
― Dogs of War
― Dogs of War
“How could I be a tourist in my own past?”
― Darius the Great Is Not Okay
― Darius the Great Is Not Okay
“Fish die quick in a tank, Daddy said. We needed room, to flourish, to grow, to go to college, to dive deep and go where they never could.”
― Grown
― Grown
“A pushover is a bad thing to be, but an opinionated pushover is a worse thing to be. A pushover is nice and goes along with it, whatever it is. An opinionated pushover acts nice and goes along with it, but while quietly brooding and resentful. I am an opinionated pushover.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“The octopus knew he was happy, and it loved him, or valued him, or felt something enough that his happiness was important to it. And that in itself is a miracle; that is the grand triumph Senkovi never grasped, that his creatures could empathize, could apply a theory of mind to entities quite unlike themselves, could be great-hearted enough to be happy that someone else was laughing, even if they couldn’t get the joke.”
― Children of Ruin
― Children of Ruin
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