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Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
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I wish I still had my grandmother’s ring so I could give it to her the right way. Except now, he was also thinking, Please God let me not blow this, let this not be a huge mistake.
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Diantha came so close to saying she would do whatever Patricia wanted, anything at all. And then it hit her: She was being Trickstered. She’d been this close to becoming a slave to her former best friend. Diantha backed away, almost tipping over a teak side table full of drinks.
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His heart skidded like a dirt bike on black ice as he watched her disappear.
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“At last Mouth said, “Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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The secret to a successful webcomic is to trick people into believing they will only get all the jokes if they read regularly. By the time they realize there are no jokes for them to get, they’ve invested too much time to quit, and they can’t admit they’ve been duped,” said Kevin. “There is a whole art to creating nonexistent jokes that appear to go over everyone’s head. It’s much harder than creating actual jokes.
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The way the antigravity field destabilized
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“It’s okay,” Patricia told the bird. “I’ve got you. It’s okay.
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
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Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you.
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All the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.
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Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.