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[wanderloco]

Highland Heroes

Iceland 🇮🇸 | simona_br_photography

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'But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them – even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.'

- N. K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth 3)

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'He closed his eyes, and started to fall asleep almost immediately, but it was as though the consciousness of defeat would not let him escape, and found him even there, filling his nearly sleeping mind with images of inundation and defeat, and harried him out of his rest, back into the continuing pain and dejection of wakefulness.'

– Iain M. Banks, The Use of Weapons (Culture novels #3)

[fifineller]

by Felix Sjödahl

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“There is always something left to love.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, 100 Years of Solitude 

[expressions-of-nature]

by Karina Vorozheeva

[quotespile]

“That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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"Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can see the cracks. You, though; you are dented, bruised, but intact. It is kind of you. Looking out for him like so."

- N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)

[mathprofessorquotes]

“The universe only exists to simulate math, anyways.”

— Physics professor

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'I think, once I start thinking about what I say, I might even start to make sense.

And who wants that?'

- Henning Pauly, 2017, Phil X - The Apology

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''You have lots of crunchies at home to eat, don't you? You don't need to kill anything. Even if you catch something, Nana, you barely eat it.' You idiot, idiot, idiooooootttt! Every living creature on earth is born with an instinct to kill! You can try to dodge it with vegetarianism, but you just don't hear a plant scream when you kill it! Hunting down what can be hunted is a cat's natural instinct!'

- Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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''Don't worry about us,' he told the woman. 'We're running away!'.

'Is that so? Well, you'd better go home right now!''

- Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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'He sneered at me. I had to admit he knew how to sneer. For all its ubiquity it isn’t an expression that just anyone can master.'

- Daniel Polansky, The Straight Razor Cure

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"She doesn’t understand my enthusiasm for this part of the internship: the idea that I’m excited to be away from the safety of the compound puzzles her. On one hand, it puzzles me too—especially given my grandmother’s fate. But the trees call to me. My wonder swallows my fear."

- Olivia A. Cole, A Conspiracy of Stars

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“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on sick or well.”

- Florence Nightingale, 1859

From This Is Your Brain on Silence by Daniel A. Gross

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‘The last level of metaphor in the Alice [in Wonderland] books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.’

- Martin Gardner

[quotespile]

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”

— Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds