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“You’re at Yuelu Academy,” Nezha said. “You’re conducting groundbreaking research on—on some irrelevant shit like the movement of planetary bodies, or the most effective accounting methods across the Twelve Provinces.” “Don’t mock accounting,” Kitay said. “It’s important.” “Only to you,” Venka said. “Regimes have fallen because rulers didn’t balance their accounts.”
― The Dragon Republic
― The Dragon Republic
“do I have to snap the wine bottle inside him to get him to stop sending me sad emails? Do I have to cut his nipple off for him to realise he should probably ring the police? Do I have to cave his head in with my camera, rather than hit him the once? Do I have to crash his car? Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a fucking mark?”
― Boy Parts
― Boy Parts
“As a rule, be more.
As a rule, I miss you.
As a rule, "little" is always smaller than "small". Don't ask me why.
I'm sorry I don't call enough.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
As a rule, I miss you.
As a rule, "little" is always smaller than "small". Don't ask me why.
I'm sorry I don't call enough.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“There’s a Susan Sontag book called Regarding the Pain of Others, which Frank made me read — there’s a bit where Sontag talks about how when people see terrible things happen, they used to say it felt like a dream, but now they say it feels like a movie. Movies have supplanted dreams in the popular consciousness, and have become our benchmark for the unreal, and the almost real. Today has been a movie, playing on an old, warped videotape.”
― Boy Parts
― Boy Parts
“Can’t I be happy? I’ve missed you.”
― The Dragon Republic
― The Dragon Republic
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