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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 36m

On the other side of the room was a framed print of a man in the snow. He was lying on his back.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 1h

The beacon on the Hightower, do you know what color it glows when Oldtown calls its banners to war?

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 2h

“No,” Tau said. “No amnesty. You treat people like things, and I cannot stand it.”

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 3h

Meals are the special privilege of the living. In order to stay alive, we need to keep eating.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 4h

Mothers who disappeared, fathers who didn’t love you, kids who mocked you—everything would shrink to pinpoints and vanish. Up there: nothing but stars.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 5h

Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 6h

Iscend is glad to exist, in a way very few people will ever attain.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 7h

How porous the boundary was between him and the world, as if everything flowed through him like water through a net. She’d worried about him, moving through a rough world as a tender bare heart, beating out in the open where anything could cause a bruise.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 8h

HOMURA: They really do look better on you after all.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 9h

Bonnie. Thank you for helping me grow up.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 10h

But you can make it funny. You can make anything funny.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 11h

I know you trust me, and you really shouldn’t sometimes. And I don’t want you to trust me over yourself on this. You’re – I just think you’re important.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 12h

For he knew the cold truth. The only thing that could tear down the House of the Dragon, was itself.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 13h

But now I understand that this is the role of a prophet. We translate the truth that has infected us. We find a way to pass it on to others.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe what you need at your age is a broken heart.
He laughs and runs a hand through his bleached hair. I don’t know about that either!
Ever had one?
No! he shouts, still laughing, bringing his knees up to his chest.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15h

Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16h

Every time the weight of who I wish I already was
Comes crashing down on who I still am

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 17h

But I have hope for Tetley. For the other worlds to come, which will not be this one, which may never have the ease of this one again, but which will be, one way or another. And be loved by someone.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

taking every word and biting it like a coin. When Baru laughed it was like flash through thundercloud.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

Shir saw them together, once and only once, when they snuck out of the school at Iriad. Aminata tall and lanky and sailor-smooth, drawling stories to Baru from the side of her mouth. And Baru perched beside her on a stone on the harbor cliffs, dark-eyed, looking up intently at Aminata’s face,

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 20h

His eyes have the same shine as his father. We can no longer stop him.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 21h

You have a gentle soul. That’s why you chose to forgive me yet again.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 22h

Then become something else, the Trawler-man says, with the first of his two faces. My currents are kind, and your flesh is pliant. I will make you something that cannot be bound.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 23h

This destiny has caught up with me. Regardless of where you are physically. It’s all happening.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 1d

“This is the end, thought Melena. Her brain was too foggy to think anything else, and she said it again and again, as if to prevent it from being true.
This is the beginning, thought Frex, but of what?