Luisa
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“Fine, fuck it," Clay said, tossing the plate into the yard. The chicken parts bounced nicely, breading themselves with a light coating of sand, ants, and dried grass. "When did chicken become like plutonium anyway, for Christ's sake? You can't let it touch you or it's certain fucking death. And eggs and hamburgers kill you unless you cook them to the consistency of limestone! And if you turn on your fucking cell phone, the plane is going to plunge out of the sky in a ball of flames? And kids can't take a dump anymore but they have to have a helmet and pads on make them look like the Road Warrior. Right? Right? What the fuck happened to the world? When did everything get so goddamn deadly? Huh? I've been going to sea for thirty damned years, and nothing's killed me. I've swum with everything that can bite, sting, or eat you, and I've done every stupid thing at depth that any human can -- and I'm still alive. Fuck, Clair, I was unconscious for an hour underwater less than a week ago, and it didn't kill me. Now you're going to tell me that I'm going to get whacked by a fucking chicken leg? Well, just fuck it then!”
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”
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“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
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