#p135

[readinginmars]

""This would not be a survivable situation, particularly for mortals. Are your people here so willing to die for vengeance?"

"Not so much for vengeance, as to buy a chance for the others who will come after us.""

Witch King - Martha Wells

[readinginmars]

"I knew my mom appreciated Kye's generosity and was giving in to the charade to make her happy, but I'd always been proud of her resistance to spiritual conformity and I was sorry to see it surrendered. My mother had never practiced religion, even when it separated her from an already meager Korean community in a small town, even when her sister asked her to on her deathbed. I loved that she did not fear god. I loved that she believed in reincarnation, the idea that after all this she could start anew. When I asked her what she'd want to come back as, she always told me she'd like to return as a tree. It was a strange and comforting answer, that rather than something grand and heroic, my mother preferred to return to life as something humble and still."

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

[nusumigaki]

「ご不快な思いを⋯⋯」と述べた時点で、「具体的にどういった行為を避けたらいいのかははっきりしませんが」という会話的推意が生じてしまうことになりそうだ。これではもう約束事をしながら「どうしたらこの約束が守れるのかはわかりません」と伝えているようなもので、これが不誠実だという印象の源なのではないだろうか。

[nusumigaki]

「彼はいつも夜に不意打ちを食らう。彼は信じようとしないの、夜が来るんだということを」

[nusumigaki]

ブライアンは「包括的なコンセプト」みたいなものを持ちあわせてはいなかった、とアッシャーは言った。彼はただ心から何かを語りたかっただけなのだ。

[nusumigaki]

動物に比べると植物ははるかに優れた存在だ。植物はわずかなものしか必要としない。無機栄養さえあれば十分だ。それこそが植物の尊さである。

[nusumigaki]

重要なことは、私たちの意識や思考はバイアスと切り離すことができないということであり、バイアスとうまく付き合っていく必要がある。

[emotionallyunstablegamer]

(P135) Sometimes it kinda tastes like Amaretto which I hate and I really miss the grungey 90s design on the bottle but its still Cherry Coke and it's my preferred when I only have Coke flavors as a choice.