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There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 2h

But we stopped the killing. We rule over an iron peace. The galaxy tells one story now, and it’s a story of less death. More life? I don’t know. But certainly less death. And that death comes by our coil and our fang. We tend our prey wisely. And in exchange for a brief span as our chattel,

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

Dreams didn't make us kings.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 5h

What I always think. You’re amazing.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 6h

Mabel Martin, what do you see in the heart of the collapsing star? This house. The kingdom beyond the firmament. I saw you. I saw you. I saw you.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 7h

By then Tisarwat had calmed again somewhat. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I can’t get it back for either of us. But it will be all right. Somehow it will.” She didn’t answer, and five minutes later, exhausted from events and from her despair and her grief, she fell asleep.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 8h

Me always dancing, you always frowning. You shake your fist at me, and I toss my hair, and we leave - impressions -

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 9h

At some point you gotta decide for yourself who you wanna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 10h

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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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 11h

You need to be more careful, Cousin. You’re running out of pieces of yourself to lose.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 12h

The brain is so wrong, all the time, she says, turning to the dark landscape again. Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 13h

Little bird. Let her come.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 14h

How porous the boundary was between him and the world, as if everything flowed through him like water through a net. She’d worried about him, moving through a rough world as a tender bare heart, beating out in the open where anything could cause a bruise.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15h

Know her? I'm her sworn protector. I'm her knight! The Duchess Vultjag made me her knight!

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16h

It's the same sort of feeling that I had with Laudna the first time I met her. It was there, she was there, but she was almost like a different a different pitch than everybody else. It was musical, it wasn't painful like everybody else.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 17h

You won't even say the names of the people we lose. It’s been five years. And… I’ve spent my time feeling bad about it. I think if Valence saw me now, part of them would be proud of me, and I’m happy enough with that.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 18h

“But,” Tahr said, kissing her next pawn in thought, “they always come back to each other. That’s better than being inseparable, I think. To be separable, but bound.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

You’re the only man that’s ever touched me. You’re the only one. I haven’t really touched anyone since.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 20h

But now I understand that this is the role of a prophet. We translate the truth that has infected us. We find a way to pass it on to others.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 21h

And I do think we all survive our childhoods - even the good ones - and then start anew, start a totally different life from the one that was described to us.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 22h

Queen Alicent has not forgotten the love you had for each other.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 23h

Then the girl kissed me and kissed me and I kept still, knowing that a hidden knife was coming, inevitably, up between my ribs or in my kidney, but it never did. She just kissed me again. And again. But not lover’s kisses. Dry, friendly, joyful kisses.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The Captain had started fussing again. Crown, distracted, moved to her side. She said tenderly, “If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be in all this trouble. You thorn, you pest.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

You know, you’re good at writing for me. And I thought it was because you understood me. But it’s because you’re just like me. You’re as selfish and cruel as I am.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Poverty obscures your face too. It obscures your talents, potential, even your distinctive voice; and if it goes deep enough, it eradicates you by degrees of hunger and degradation.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m Hinata Shoyou from the concrete.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

She remembers the moment that opportunity came. When she felt a soul telling her story, and her story telling that soul: I am here, I am you, you are I, you are here. And off she went, slithering happily into that most comfortable, treacherous groove: serendura, you came for me …

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“You were devoted to Glinda, you were,” said Nanny. “Everyone knew it.” “Well, no more,” said the Witch. “The traitor.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In the end, the only way to talk to the past was to be a dead girl. I heard a deep need in its voice, the great primal horror, the beginning of attachment: after all these years, after the death of all, this broken machine just wanted its mother.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In that bower, closed off from the hurt of the hurt world, Denver's imagination produced its own hunger and its own food, which she badly needed because loneliness wore her out. Wore her out.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

But that moment... alone, in the grey dawn, before a pondful of dead fish, knowing that I was seen, and understanding that all things in this world were connected? That was the first time in my life I knew what terror really was. The first time I truly believed in you, my river.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

You make it look simple - like you’re not even trying - and the funny thing is that I’ve been trying for such a very long time. I think maybe that’s why I hated you. I hated you, too, Sister Carpenter.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Do you know why I actually built the bagel? It wasn’t to destroy everything. It was to destroy myself. I wanted to see if I went in, could I finally escape? Like, actually die?

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Is that… a witch? Please try not to look scared. Despite her appearance, she’s the most hurt.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Greetings, greetings/nPeople in the occupied land-/nPeople who are planted/nIn your homes like trees-/nMy heart is with you,/nI send you regards of peace

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In the Creation of Éa, which is the oldest song, it is said, “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.”

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I don’t believe in music but I do believe in dancing. I believe in whispers in ears and so I speak. I believe that this will be heard, well after it's needed. Well past the long nights.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Jiji, I think something's wrong with me. I make friends, then suddenly I can't bear to be with any of them.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

When I was young I saw my father on Tuesday afternoons A tray of fruit and a cup of juice, and little else between us In search of more one week I thought I'd bring some questions to him Because I knew so little but I knew he answered questions

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Magic is practiced in the world, whether you believe it or not; it is used to guard over sick children and to ward off the foxes from the coop. People believe in magic. The magic may not alter anything, but their beliefs still guide their actions.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Here—take a coin. Go buy a mango and bring it back to me, and I’ll cut you a piece.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Your neighbor Abdumasi is a good guy. When he sees how upset you are, he gives you a caraval kitten to hold.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Your race is appallingly alone in its world. No other mammalian species. No other ambisexual species. No animal intelligent enough even to domesticate as pets. It must color your thinking, this uniqueness.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I know you trust me, and you really shouldn’t sometimes. And I don’t want you to trust me over yourself on this. You’re – I just think you’re important.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

People get built different. We don’t need to figure it out. We just need to respect it.

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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You know how wimpy I am. And because I could never bear to do something that would make someone as strong as you cry like this.

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