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On all sides of power, rhetoric was amplified, legends and tales competing for narrative dominance even as realpolitik was guided on the ground by battles and great armies. Both went hand in hand, adding yet another layer of detail in an
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“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with. *”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“She had never entirely let go of the notion that if she reached far enough with her thoughts she might find someone waiting, that if two people were to cast their thoughts outward at the same moment they might somehow meet in the middle.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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