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turquoise-rain.bsky.social
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quotes that i like :)
“That first day at work when I looked around and realized that I was like, surrounded by people I could count on. That we had – we had built something good.”
December 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Aubrey. Are you ready to do violence?”
“Yes.”
“Good.”
December 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“Echo... saved my life in a really rough situation down on Quire and I’ve never forgotten that, and I – it was a really important, transitive moment for me, yeah.”
December 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.
December 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“And looking back now, all these damn years of life later, I suppose it’s fair to say it all started there. All because I gave them that gift, that mansion, in those woods. Those woods, too close to where I lay dyin’.”
December 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
these are the six guiding conditions and behaviors that effectively built this field:
1. the sun
2. the earth
3. humankind’s appreciation of beauty
4. humankind’s desire for order
5. humankind’s avarice
6. humankind’s disunity
December 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.
December 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“There is one way out.”
December 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“Tell him our ghosts have strong hands and long memories.”
December 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
December 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“It’s this. It’s tears, forever. You don’t get to win. You just have to keep trying, and losing people. You just have to see it go bad, over and over and over again. It gets close. You get close, over and over again, and then they take it from you.”
December 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“I’ve heard people call Tau naïve; even other Princes. But I have never, ever known anyone to influence Tau’s judgment of character. That’s what makes Tau so strong. They always get to the truth of you, whether you like it or not.”
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things.”
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
There’s some symmetry here. That the most desperate moment of an aging all-star in his last game is rescued by a rookie utility player who is best known for choking in his first.
December 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
My heart is a fish
hiding in the water-grass
in the green, in the green
December 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call ‘red’ is the same thing that I call ‘red’?
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference.”
December 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
KIM KITSURAGI – “It’s impressive, especially for a man your age -- and in *those* heels... Nice shoes, by the way. I like the green. Goes will with the orange.” He looks at your snakeskin shoes and smiles, suddenly.
December 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“There is no right or wrong; there is no one truth, there are lots of truths. And you girls should translate the world into as many different languages as possible. If you see the world in just one language, your world becomes too small.”
December 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Neither of them had mentioned their moment of connection. She’d felt reckless and brave bringing it up just now.
And he wanted to “step it up a notch”?
Holding Elliot’s hand was plenty.
It was everything, she thought.
December 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
JUICE: hey are you a dude or what
NINE: I don’t know. I haven’t really thought about it.
JUICE: ok well good luck and dont feel obligated to subscribe to the gender binary etc etc so anyways there is no greater spectacle than a dumbass getting whooped by a stick on the ground
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE
ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE
IT IS TOO LATE FOR US

WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS
December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I admire anyone who can... y’know, who can find their way in one direction and then find their way back.
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.”
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Trim is nothing but people. Believe in that trim again, Baru. If you go into this duel to protect your parents, if you are truly and selflessly devoted to saving them–” Tau swallowed, and went on, with warm hope. “–I tell you that you cannot lose.”
December 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM