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⌈ Secret Post #3789 ⌋

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[The White Princess]

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"If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior." - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals.

"I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov.

Too many to list, but I just came upon this gem: "I don't know what you think about this buggery lark, sir; but I think it's unnatural"

Still loling

The imagination has been so debased that imagination, being imaginative, rather than being the lynchpin of our existence now stands as a synonym for something outside ourselves like science fiction or some new use for tangerine slices on raw pork chops. 'What an imaginative summer recipe!' And Star Wars? 'So imaginative!' And Star Trek? 'So imaginative.' And Lord of the Rings, all those dwarfs? 'So imaginative...'
The imagination has moved out of the realm of being our link, our most personal link with our inner lives and the world outside that world, this world we share....
I believe the imagination is the passport that we create to help take us into the real world.
John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation

I like this.

I love basically everything Puddleglum says but especially, "Nothing wrong with me. Not a frog. Nothing frog with me. I'm a respectabiggle."

Can't remember the quote atm, but it was from Interview with the Vampire and it was some gay shit Armand said to Louis, prolly about wanting his dick or something.

My very favorite line in all of literature is from Dostoevsky's The Idiot. It made me cry the first time I read it, both because of the context and because it spoke so simply to what I was feeling in myself at the time:

"I almost do not exist now, and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me."

I love The Idiot.

I was recommended 'the Idiot' by a homeless guy. He was originally from Estonia (I'm in Western Europe) and he and his father had come over to find work. Everything had fallen apart for him after his father had died and he'd found himself homeless.

While I bought him a coffee he told me about his favourite books - of which there were many. The Idiot was his favourite of all time though. He'd read it a dozen times.

I promised to come back and meet him a few days later but a family emergency came up and I ended up breaking my promise. He was nowhere to be found when I went to try and find him on my return.

Reading through all the recommendations he gave me made me sad, but especially reading The Idiot. I still think about him often. Hope he's okay wherever he is.

SA sorry for the sidetracking there. Strong memories.

No worries, thanks for sharing the memory. :)

"'Don't be so angry, Naomi,' she whispered. 'It's only love.'" - Ali Cronin, the Skins novel

"'I was one of them,' said Lady LeJean. 'Now, I rather think I'm one of me.'" - Terry Pratchett, Thief Of Time

It means nothing without context, but there's a single paragraph at the ending of an Orson Scott Card story that I am completely incapable of rewriting. There's not a single word I could change to make it more fitting than it already is.

"He bought the painting. It fell to pieces before he died."

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

So, so many. A few dozen from Fugitive Pieces alone.

But I'll pick the very simple final line of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: "We would have been safe." In doesn't mean much out of context, but in context it cuts to the core of what it is to experience loss and grief in a way few lines do.

And okay, it's the opposite of original, but there's a reason "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" has survived so long and become so widely known that it's basically become a meme. It's mostly used in a jokey way these days (which I doubt Vonnegut would have minded at all), but I think in its original context, its a line that captures a longing so widely and deeply felt you could almost consider it a quintessential human longing. Actually, this and the Incredibly Close line have that in common I think.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

- Terry Pratchett, Wee Free Men

It was a lesson I needed at exactly the right time. I've been contemplating getting it framed.

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