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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16m

I guess, in the end, I couldn't be a prince. Forgive me, Himemiya...for pretending to be a prince...Forgive me...

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 1h

This is kind of how we get through our lives: we tell ourselves stories so that what’s happening becomes something we can live with. Necessary fictions.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 2h

But the world does not have an end, not as far as I can see. It just keeps going. But whatever you touched, whatever direction you shoved it in, it keeps going. Whoever you talked to, whoever's cigarette you lit, they keep moving. And that's why you take notes!

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 3h

The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works, and it’s not how oceans work, either. Nothing you love comes back.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 4h

Aixue stares at her face in astonishment. The slight but vital asymmetry that says this is human. You cannot be symmetrical and be real. The perfect concentricity of her eyes. The stunning fractal subdivision of her pupils, two splitting in two—

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 5h

Sandbox love never dies.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 6h

In the Creation of Éa, which is the oldest song, it is said, “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 7h

There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year! I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me!

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 8h

Will Deborah Vance Make History?

I think she will.
XoXo
Ava

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 9h

Name a day, name an hour, in which Arthur Less was not afraid.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 10h

Anna Limon. Mabel Martin. They are saying your names in the ley-lines, in the salt-domes, in the mycorrhizal networks pulsing with memories of light. There is a girl who is king. There is a girl who is consort. They have seen the old lord toppled like so many sticks.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve never felt regret in my life. I am confidence, breathing.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 12h

I think you’re an extraordinary person. You’re always the first to lighten a situation. You act bravely when you’re afraid. You do what you say.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 13h

Tell me about a place I haven't been
And he said there is a place
A terrible place
Where they worship gods
Have no place for laws, even the law of gravity
And there are no real people there and there are no real names and the flowers never really dry

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 14h

Please, Cheryl, make our history before we are all dead and gone. But if you are really in the family, you better understand that our family will always only have each other.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15h

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16h

You wanna know what the weak point of a mech is? The fucking pilot.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 17h

Water has everything to do with change—in virtually every culture it’s a symbol of change. In Shakespeare… water is symbolic in terms of crossing a rubicon, and of transformation. In a lot of cultures it’s where you go to meet the gods, because they come out of water.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 18h

I’m the queen of death. You can’t die out there without me.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

matter what they say!

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

She thought it was someone with tea, but she stood and pressed down the front of her homespun black skirt when she saw who it was.
”Miss Glinda of the Arduennas,” she said, her heart churring.
“Oh, you came, I knew you would,” said Glinda. “Miss Elphaba, the last true Eminent Thropp, no

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 20h

Mother, she bays, am I an animal?
Khaje wants to answer: Run, daughter, run to me! Khaje wants to cry out, Anna, I love you, I love you, come home.
But she can’t say anything. After all, she has wolf jaws.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 21h

And maybe I can make everyone hear me all at once when I say the Perfect Millennium is over, and that the Divine Principality as it stands is done. And whether the Stels remain after that is up to them. But not me. And not anyone named Princept ever again.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 22h

Then I suppose someday, you will become my enemy as well. But I don’t care. Because even then, I will continue to wish for a world in which you will be happy.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 23h

Well, color me suprised. I didn't know Agott was capable of smiling like that.