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You will be a brilliant mother. You've got to be brave and beautiful. I love you. I love you. Will you tell me where you are?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 2h

Where did the genius come from? Where did it go? Like allowing another lover into the house to live with you, someone you’d never met but whom you knew he loved more than you.

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“Truly trim is real,” Tau breathed. “Truly the universe is ruled by the connections between people.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 4h

But you’re young. Everyone you let into your heart will leave a seed in the soil there.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 5h

The Pink Opaque was a tv show. We watched it in your basement on Saturday nights from 10:30 to 11:00. Remember? The last show before the Young Adult Network switched to black and white reruns for the night. Yeah. But are you sure? Are you sure that's all it was?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 6h

Dreams didn't make us kings.

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What? No one’s ever said that to you? David. You’re a strong boy. You’re the strongest boy grandma’s ever seen!

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 8h

You are not half-blind. The wound runs deeper than that. They touch the side of her head, where the maul struck her helm. Your brain can no longer understand that half of the world. The left hemisphere of your vision is your entire universe.

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I love you. I love you. What makes you think that might have changed? I love you.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 10h

But if I don’t choose to believe it’s possible, then it is certainly impossible. So what do we have to lose by hope?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 11h

“You are thinking!” Elphaba cried. Galinda raised herself to her elbows at the enthusiasm in her roomie’s voice. “I am about to sleep, because this is profoundly boring to me,” Galinda said, but Elphaba was grinning from ear to ear.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 12h

When does it, like, hit you? Never all at once. It’s just kind of a bunch of tiny ways. You know, like, over and over, just— well, that’s how it was for me.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 13h

We're in the same place. Exactly the same place. Come here. Come. Step closer. Look. If you look at me, who do I look at?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 14h

The world knows trim, which is the power that binds. And trim will make your own story echo the stories you tell to others. If you deceive those around you, you will in the end deceive yourself, to your own grief. Do you understand? Do you understand?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15h

But all I know about human life is if I love you...I love you. And if I love you and duck it, I die.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16h

I’m just starting to wonder if I was always a blank canvas, even in my youth. I don’t know. You have one of the biggest sparks I’ve ever seen. You don’t need a pulse for that.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 17h

The village fades from history because the parents did not take care of their children.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 18h

No one could rival Arthur Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it. He sat, and his mind immediately left me behind.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

“She has been unlucky in love,” said the Tin Woodman, “like the rest of us.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 20h

I came all this way to be with you so don’t be afraid of this world where we can meet!

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 21h

No matter where you go, everyone is connected.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 22h

That was the Farrier Process, wasn’t it? You wanted me to live in your story. Well, you’ve failed.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 23h

But the humming would likely have given you away eventually, I imagine. Are you aware you do it almost constantly?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're in the same place. Exactly the same place. Come here. Come. Step closer. Look. If you look at me, who do I look at?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Now tell me this is all my destiny, written in stone. Tell me I can’t avoid this choice.” “That’s a lie. You will have a choice—” Anna strains against Ssrin’s grip. She has no hope. But she fights anyway. “Then lie to me,” she hisses. “Lie.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who would have thought this childhood code would serve us so long? Find me at the return address. We simply must catch up. I have a remarkable wound to show you. Regards, Your sword thief

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‪The time is coming, Alicent. Either you prepare Aegon to rule, or you cleave to Rhaenyra and pray for her mercy.‬

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The shame saves me, too. I can't grow, and I can't live, and I can't change without knowing when I’m wrong.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Everything in the world happened in circles, the Whale Worlds told Tau. This was why the world held together. The end of the story told the beginning how to happen, so that the story could go on.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For a while, loudness was an answer for loneliness. Prayers once whispered became chanted. He would sing while harvesting the little tomatoes he lived on. He would stand at the front of the ship, and with every door open, scream.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I was sure you wouldn’t come back. I was falling apart. I thought it was because you—weren’t coming back.” “Well, here I am.” “That doesn’t make any sense. All the answers are in there. You said you didn’t care about anything else.” “I’m not obliged to make any sense to

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“That,” Ssrin whispers, her human voice softer than the choral hiss, “is not the shape of your soul, Anna. You cannot defy the choice. You cannot alter the rules. That power belongs to other passions. They rage against their fate. You and I, serendura, we make the hard choices. We pay the

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Or maybe it was foolish tears blurring Glinda’s vision. Elphaba hadn’t cried, of course. Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence. But the sting, to Glinda, was real.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The young man stared at his lover and, before taking a sip of his beer, said: “Arthur Less is the bravest person I know.” Arthur thinks of this on every flight. It always ruins everything.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why do you act like you care about me? 'Cause you don't. How- how can you say that- You like the paronage. You’ve always liked the patronage. I- we're we've- we're in this together! Of course I care about you!

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is language enough to describe it, but going there is beyond language, so mostly I don’t. I don’t know how to belong to the story in a way that doesn’t betray it.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh stubborn and reckless hero… you let me have a small taste of true friendship. Farewell.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am the true divine, I am the god they dream they worship, I am autonomy itself.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perhaps now their friendship could be repaired? Perhaps. But the strangeness between them had become a habit, and habits were hardest to fix.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You think this doesn’t matter as much as thrones and treasuries? You think you paint a portrait of me with your life if you ignore your heart, your hands? I couldn’t.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They send you to their factories and fields to harden your palms, burden your back and choke your lungs. They strip you of your dignity and they turn your hair white and your gums bloody as they rot you from within. Why should their outcomes be natural, and mine obscene?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, color me suprised. I didn't know Agott was capable of smiling like that.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I tried. I really, really tried. I just- I thought that if I shut everything out and just focused on work it would all be okay. And look where that landed me. All I managed to do was push everyone away. I pushed you away. I’m sorry Marceline. I’ve been a real dinger to you.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She felt like she had spent a very long time fumbling with a knot. “You’ve gone away again,” Xe said, from below, “haven’t you?”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stories – they make you fictional. Sort of pin a person in place. But you know who she really is. The truth can be a battering ram.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The princess vowed to become a prince herself one day. But was that really such a good idea?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The outside world has no roads. But you can always build new roads.

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