words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 31mAFTER LIFE -- DEATH; AFTER DEATH -- LIFE AGAIN. AFTER THE WORLD -- THE PALE; AFTER THE PALE -- THE WORLD AGAIN. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 1h“Death is not among my fears. But there is one thing I do fear, and one thing alone: that time will quiet the rage in my heart.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 2h“You were shouting the way that people who know the truth shout.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 3h“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” 001
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 4h“So you should be asking yourself, what makes a thing like that afraid? What makes a thing like ME afraid?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 5h“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 6h“it is on SIGHT for mr. wickham!!! i WISH i had paintings of the people i hated in my house!! i wish i did!! because then people would come over and be like ‘yo what’s up–’ ‘THAT’S MR. WICKHAM!!!! IF YOU SEE HIM, YOU CALL ME!!!!’” 011
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 7h“I do know my own mind,” protested Anne. “The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 8hYou ever feel like you’re blundering ceaselessly through the dark? 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 9h“Do you like falling asleep or waking up better?” “Oh, definitely falling asleep. Um... I – I really just – I love that feeling of drifting off, I like the way that your mind can wander at those last moments? Waking up is just like, a reminder that you have stuff to do.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 10hYOU – Are you the miracle? INSULINDIAN PHASMID – No. You are the miracle. CONCEPTUALIZATION – It was you. Coming from the west. From the Whirling. You were coming... 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 11hYou’re young enough to touch things. You’re young enough to make things go different. Do not squander that. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 12h“Go make some mistakes. Go find someone different, someone utterly unlike me, except that she should drive you mad, too, because she doesn’t agree with you, and she won’t bow down to what you want; but she’s loyal beyond reason when you need her.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 13hDemani Dusk was not the first to cry at the overwhelming vastness of possibility. But she, who once had the power to erase this system from existence entirely, cried deeper than anyone else. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 14h“You need to give a piece of yourself to them, body or heart.” “Well, obviously this horse has my heart already.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 15h“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 16hThere’s some symmetry here. That the most desperate moment of an aging all-star in his last game is rescued by a rookie utility player who is best known for choking in his first. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 17hso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 18hMaybe connection isn’t always about words or even about actions. It’s about… presence. The promise of presence. It’s knowing that after you leave home, there will be someone there for you when you come back, someone with their own stories, their own life worth telling you about. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 19h“You kill people twice. You kill them with your gun and then you kill them again when you forget who you’ve killed.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 20h1. Don’t talk about Kinko’s. 2. Don’t print a printer. 3. Don’t print a printer. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 22h“Like what if milk was a solid.” “See.” “Okay, this is – now we’re getting somewhere. What if milk was a solid?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 23h“Trim isn’t real that way,” Baru whispered. “Trim won’t stop a sword.” “People are real.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026KEITH (as GIG): Horse. Okay. I get it now. What a beautiful creature. Will you be my friend? AUSTIN (as DUCK): (whinnies) AUSTIN: And then it like, it puts its mane hand on your hand and like holds you there for a second. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and driving under an overpass, and for just that second there is a profound, powerful sense of reprieve – the utter silence of non-rain. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026seven different butterflies in various states of undress 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Tau?” he said, in bemusement. “But…” “But what? But I’m too kind to tell the truth? But I’m too gentle to lay it out in public? But I’m too soft to do this to you?” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Divine Principality offers you progress, but imperial futures are only ever stolen presents. I offer you more. I offer you actualization. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Tell him none of this is his fault. It was already burning. He’s just the first spark of the fire. Tell him he knows everything he needs to know and feels everything he needs to feel. And when the day comes and those two pull together, he will be an unstoppable force for good.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Just... isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So she was always in the middle of at least one book and felt safe only if she had several more on standby. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You look around. Who is here at the top of the Empire State Building? “Motherfuckin’ I’m here!” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“When they bury me, you make sure they call me Attar Rose.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Emotionally stunted, refuses to deal with grief, won’t say the name of the person most important to them, betrayed by their situationship, captain of a ship that was meant to be a promise, a promise that may never be fulfilled. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“I cannot make speeches, Emma... If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I wonder if there’s a single place in the whole world that’s never had a story. I bet not. I just about guarantee you there’s no place like that in America. Every little square of it, every place you stomp your foot, that’s where something happened. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026JUICE: for just two players to recover nine footballs is real crazy. so at the moment, if they just get these balls in the first place, i’d rate it at like a 7. you should calibrate your excitement to 7 out of 10 TEN: I’ll put it at 4 because I don’t trust your judgment. JUICE: i’ll take a 4 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“You know what happened the last time I sat down and I had a big meal with my friends and family? We went outside and we killed a star.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NINE: You know what, fuck you. JUICE: oh shit TEN: Oh shit! NINE: I’m sorry. JUICE: nah buddy that ruled i was wondering if you could even get mad JUICE: i'm sorry, clowning is how i express affection 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“This is the kitchen of a Thinker,” she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gig isn't trying to trick you! He isn't influencing you with guile, charm, or logic. He is just warm. 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Has she survived unchanged? There’s something different about Li Aixue, if you look at her out of the corner of your eye. She’s too sharp, too bright, too… is she humming? Is she ringing? Like a chime? 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“When you’re doing something like this, the odds are irrelevant. You don’t need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you’re trying to do. And then you need to do it. What comes next isn’t something you have control over.” 000
words @turquoise-rain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you’re looking pretty and your hair’s all shiny, and there’s a glint in your eye, and you say sorry like you mean it, and then kiss me on the mouth and let your hand kind of slip under my shirt so it’s on my back, well, I’d sure forgive and forget. 000
