Stuff I'm Reading

Notes from the underground / Kindle. Updated irregularly. If you’re following this blog because it followed you, the one you actually want is my main, listed below. (Blame tumblr not letting you change which blog is your default.) main tumblr: twinkle-night

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anyway yeah, my main blog is the static site on my own domain, Brilliant Gedou. I have backups of all my tumblr blogs, so I should probably do some regexing and port them over to BG for safekeeping

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Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I’ve found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.

Gandalf the Grey (via seraphsfire)

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Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you.

Neil Gaiman. M Is for Magic. Location 45-46.

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Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.

Yaa Gyasi. Homegoing: A Novel. Location 680-681.

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A witch is just a girl who knows her mind.

Catherynne M. Valente. The Bread We Eat in Dreams. Location 577.

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Girls had to believe in everything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

Robin Wasserman. Girls on Fire: A Novel. Location 5171-5173.

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girls link fingers on a dark night and whisper their secret selves, girls swear a blood oath of loyalty and silence.

Robin Wasserman. Girls on Fire: A Novel.

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Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.

Robin Wasserman. Girls on Fire: A Novel.

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I’d had a guinea pig once that did nothing but eat and sleep and poop, and if I’d found out the guinea pig’s inner turmoil was stormier than mine, that would have disturbed me, too.

Robin Wasserman. Girls on Fire: A Novel.

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All wars feed off martyrs, the mention of the dead instantly shutting down all arguments for compromise or tolerance for the other. It is the dead who rule.

Chris Hedges. War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning.

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So basically you tried to ask your parents for money and messed up SO BADLY that you destroyed an entire city.

Ryan North. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure.

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Friar Lawrence is a friend of yours, and that makes you happy, because all the coolest teens are friends with friars.

Ryan North. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure.

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“I called for her already! I swear I did! I swear on my virginity at age twelve!” she says, which is kinda weird and a little bit pervy.

Ryan North. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure.

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The desert chews its secrets right down to the bone.

Ursula Vernon. Jackalope Wives (Collected in Nebula Awards Showcase 2016).

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“The world will change,” she said. “It always does. We are all empty, but this changing is what saves us. That is why I must go.”

Usman T. Malik. The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family (Collected in Nebula Awards Showcase 2016).

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A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind.

Frederick Douglass. Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester (popularly “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”)

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No one asks poor people if they want war.

Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer: A Novel. Location 215-215.