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“The next hurt is always coming, always close by, Forrest had said, lying in the hospital. Jack stood by the bed and stared at the ragged stitching under his brother's chin, the black, bristling threads against his white-blue neck. The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.”
― The Wettest County in the World
― The Wettest County in the World
“The flattening of the human experience in the last . . . I don’t know, fifty years, can point to the simulation winding down.” “Flattening?” Kam asked. “Has it seemed at all like shit’s just kind of run its course? Problems are obvious and no one’s that invested in fixing them? No new discoveries, no new ideas. All the new arguments are the same as the old arguments. Lost the plot with art and entertainment. Everything’s AI or a remix or remaster or expansion of the same five IPs.”
― Out There Screaming
― Out There Screaming
“That’s the thing about trust, isn’t it?” Ethan said. “You gather all the evidence you can, use your brain, weigh character and past actions. But the final inch of it—that’s faith. Trust means believing in someone. It’s not just a conclusion. It’s a choice.”
― What Lies in the Woods
― What Lies in the Woods
“Looking at his brother then Jack realized that he never considered Howard much of a sentient being, never considerered that he ever had a real though or plan about anything. He had always though of him as some kind of machine or animal, reacting to the world in an instinctual manner. This thought alarmed and embarrassed him.”
― The Wettest County in the World
― The Wettest County in the World
“Everything has an end. A beginning, middle and end. That's basic shit," I say. "You're born. You live. You die."
"It isn't like that. It's cyclical." She cocks her head to the right. "You begin, you begin, you begin. Or you end, you end, you end. Either way there is no stop. No go.”
― Tinfoil Butterfly
"It isn't like that. It's cyclical." She cocks her head to the right. "You begin, you begin, you begin. Or you end, you end, you end. Either way there is no stop. No go.”
― Tinfoil Butterfly
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