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var quotes = [ "Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.", "Ah, it would be nice to be just one thing, wouldn’t it? Unadulterated in nature. Without the capacity for conflict or regret.", "Once upon a time, my world was big and filled with monsters. But now the world is small… And I am the monster.", "Hidden in the chaos is the element, waiting to strike like snakes. And I'm there too. Watching. 2 years of nights have turned me into a nocturnal animal. I must choose my targets carefully. It's a big city. I can't be everywhere. But they don't know where I am.", "scientists are inventing a second star for our solarsystem thats so small nobody can find it and theyre calling it love after what I feel for everybody every day of the whole wide world", "You leave before she wakes up in the morning and you don’t want anything, can’t have anything anyway, can’t let her touch you in the one way she hasn’t already touched you. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone looks back. She looks back and you look back.", "This world is a beautiful, horrible place. It's spectacular.", "You've been living a while in the front of my skull, making orders / you've been writing me rules, shrinking maps and redrawing borders / I've been repeating your speeches, but the audience just doesn't follow, I'm leaving out words, punctuations, and it sounds pretty hollow", "every night, all over the world, hundreds of people see this face in their dreams. if this man appears in your dreams, too, or you have any information that can help us identify him, please contact us.", "You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.", "I don’t know how I managed to spend so long focused solely on my own suffering and neglecting to even realize that my suffering is the spark that caused the house to burn down. I can’t be happy and now the people that deserve to be happy won’t get to experience it either.*","The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.","Home is the poor, bruised creature fallen to the floor choking up hot, sticky crimson in the manor behind them. Home is not a planet. Once, it was. But things change, as they do, in six decades of complete Closeness.","he remembers how it was all for nothing, how this is the inevitable dead end road at every passage to progress, and how not even the constant presence watching from inside him like a guardian could love him*","MY WIFE’S MADNESS HAD GROWN TO EPIC PROPORTIONS   THE ONLY THINGS THAT SOOTHED HER WERE FICTIONS   STORIES FROM OUR VAST LIBRARY   LET ME READ YOU A STORY   LET ME READ YOU A ROMANCE   I WILL READ, YOU WILL LISTEN   AND THIS TERRIBLE NIGHT WILL PASS","'Why did you arrange our dead friends at the dining room table?'   'Because leaving them jammed in the shipping boxes was weird and morbid.'    'And they don't look weird and morbid now?'","I live to let you shine, I live to let you shine","Life is ephemeral but the sun will last much longer than we do. Life is ephemeral but there will always be more sunlight aching to pour down on us, until there isn't.*","When you pick up a stone and fling it into pools of blood, it does not ripple. It doesn’t skip. There isn’t any movement at all.*","As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love.","So now there is not even anyone to dream about, and what an odd feeling. I don’t have the strength to put together the features of a fantasy face. I am heartbroken over no one, over having nobody to wish for, nobody to hope for. I am heartbroken, usually, over someone. Now I am heartbroken over no one.","I’m stuck here in a cycle and I am getting older but I am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad or is soft because too many hands have squeezed it but then put it back down not because I am not ready but because they were not ready for my type of fruity flesh. I felt so ripe and sweet—what was off? The truth is, I was forcing myself into people’s mouths. I jumped out of their hands and into their mouths and I yelled EAT ME way before they even had a chance to get hungry and notice me and lift me up.","Actually, since you're asking, sort of became a minor superhero since you last saw me.","subway rat made eye contact with me and said 'join us. when the train comes we slide under the tracks and feel it rumble over us like a warm thunderstorm. we live forever and we love to live' I said no thank you I am too large he turned away from me I cried", "but something kept me standing by that hospital bed / i should have quit, but instead / i took care of you / you made me sleep all uneven, and i didn't believe them / when they told me that there was no saving you","This beauty is present in your time, as it was in ours. We considered ourselves to be powerful. The danger is to the body. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. This place is a message. Pay attention. This place is a place of honor. This energy was important to us. This energy stops being dangerous when you love it. The beauty is unleashed only if you substantially disturb the danger. This place is best left consecrated.*","I will stop talking about myself as a separate being. My limbs sometimes feel alien and happiness also feels alien & reminds me of how my hands move on their own, while the rest of my body is immobile. Happiness feels like climbing a tree and losing your balance when you reach the very top and get a glimpse of the city in the distance, but you still get to see the scenery even if you have to stumble a bit and that scenery is still so vast and beautiful and. I have decided in an atypical presentation of impulsivity to grasp one of the branches and pull myself back up to the treetops. I am no longer falling now. When I look at the cityscape I wonder where you are and if you know that I am watching over you angelic. I will climb the tree again and again until I get it right. One day I will get it right!*","Wouldn’t it be kinder, wouldn’t it be beautiful, if we could all consume ourselves until we’ve become something else. No, she says, don’t talk about becoming. Don’t ever Become.*","'But this -- this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by .. what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet .. go 'quack'.    'Cats.'   'Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by cats.'","We were at the animal shelter and he held a puppy up to my face & as I looked into its eyes I despised it for its innocence so he guided my hand over its soft patterned fur, the texture reanimating, the feeling of its budding trust in me enough to hold the jealousy underwater.*","'We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs.' 'Gogs?' 'Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously.'","I have no reason to choose the soul when I am given the opportunity to sew myself shut once again, but your soul has formed mine, a carving, and I choose you always, in every circumstance. Millions of years have passed us by and taken so much life in their destructive path.*","Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.","It’s incredible that you can take the tibia of a mouse and put it next to the tibia of a cow and they look almost exactly the same. Yet then I think, 'Of course they look the same—why wouldn’t they? They serve the same purpose.'","And before you know it the heart is in front of its captor, monologuing about Roman emperors while it performs surgery on itself, opening up the chest cavity and springing out. Here I am, the heart says. I am a heart, the heart says, and therefore I need to be loved.*","We were brought into this world as an experiment. We were destined to find each other and spiral on forever, until the last star flickers out. We can watch the star flicker out together. I'll make us a window with my thoughts. I'll make us a pot of coffee. We can pretend.*","The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible inbetween. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. To choose something better, to make a difference, as you say.","It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then .. it's over.","No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.","There are things in the Universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on. They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the Universe, that we have not explained everything.","Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.","God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and history, but all describing the same Creator. We've come here to learn all those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who's behind them.","You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.","Denn Shar, you said. To the death. And death there was. The death was mine. To see a human invoke the name of Valen, be willing to die for one of my kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own, the rightness of my cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments should be more of a Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said. That we are not of the same blood, but we are of the same heart.","G'Quan wrote: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.","Sometimes I enact destruction just to reenact my faith that things can be built up again. But I'm trying to stop the first part of that and just have the faith.","and i wonder if my fear surrounding death despite wanting to die is just at its very center actually a fear of being completely alone*","Oh, marvelous. You're going to kill me. What a finely-tuned response to the situation.","You’ve been shot in the leg with an arrow, missed. The hunters try again, to reach your heart. They try. They try. They keep trying.*","If you ever need a new perspective on Earth, I highly recommend space.","'Emotions have their uses.'   'They restrict and curtail the intellect and logic of the mind.'   'They also enhance life! When was the last time you smelt a flower, watched a sunset, ate a well-prepared meal?'   'These things are irrelevant.'","'Nearing completion of escape tunnel 15.' 'Isn't that being overly cautious?''Even better. It's full-blown paranoia!''But we already have 14 escape tunnels. Isn't that enough?'","He does not know that you are punishing him because you’re selfish and grotesque and you’d kickstart the end of the world, the eviscerating apocalypse that, like love, can never be reverted, if it meant he would die with his hand in yours.*","if i was captain picard id say computer 50 male silverback gorillas and then leave in an escape pod and turn off my phone","i've already been born once, and quite sufficiently, i think.","everyone knows that two negatives equal a positive. basic math! you’d think this would apply to trauma too but the negative numbers just accumulate in your blood and burst your heart out into little bits of red on the floor and nothing good ever comes of it unless you learn*","The ocean was my home, I told my mother. There’s so much life on our planet and all of it is beautiful. Even the Anglerfish. Even the massive Great White’s bite mark. Even the leeches. Why? Because they don’t know any better.*","I somehow always felt that this was my story as well. Maybe because I was so obsessed with what it would feel like to one day fall in love, to have another person who loved you the most, and loved you so much, voluntarily, that it became involuntary.","There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.","There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do.","i think the illness found the damage and damaged it further, smashed the barriers, stomped around in each rotation of the past, and then something cancelled out, like two negative numbers crashing together and pulling themselves up the rope with all of their hands and fears*","are you happy now, huh? if you were here, i could be yelling at you! but you left me here, all alone, and now i've lost the best friends i've ever had!","i love you, i dream of you all night and day /  i need you, i close my eyes and you lead the way","Gentlemen, Rico is a danger to himself and others. We never leave a madman behind.","You know how it is; you put things off for a day and next thing you know, it's a hundred years later.","Only at night, alone, would I open that door where I kept the memory of you and listen to your voice. Listen to you sing me to sleep.","your options are endless, but also less than five.", "Why won't you do it for me, when all I do is for you?","Look! Look at this woman who is both the emergency and the relief. Let me be both (I have no choice). Give in. Fall apart. Look at the pieces. Reassemble. This is the essential movement of my holy flux.","We can reject the concept of humanity if we want, or we can expand it. Many say it is an outdated idea, that to be human one must have organic flesh, a consciousness with passion. I agree with this, Soul. I see humanity in action and deed.*","Poems preserve things in thought or image but not in reality. Maybe that gets back to the thing about wanting to protect and preserve; that impulse for preserving something in a poem might be in some ways similar to collecting.","But you are my nomad and I love you sideways daily. Sideways because I have to beam my love in all directions, hoping it bounces off something and eventually finds you.", "'I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside.' 'But in space it's always dark.' 'I know, I know.'","I'm a wife in watercolors, I can wash away / What 17 cold showers couldn't wash away","there will always be another picture to take and in every flash and solar ray I see the light of the stars too and it feels like the history of all love is gazing down at us from their position above and watching us as if they were watching themselves love so long ago*","'The color is so light, what's it made of?' 'An old breastbone.' 'Creepy.'  'It was the breastbone of her sister; her name was Pearl.'","A dream of a galaxy without war when species from different worlds could live side by side in mutual respect.","and all you said, in your quietest voice, was 'i needed you as much as they do'","i can’t love things without killing them because my love is inevitable and permanent and death is inevitable and permanent and yes this is spurious correlation! but the guilt is relentless.*","Wow! All life is experimental! Love that. This morning feels brand new.","too many mirrors in this house / i don't like to see myself like this / i'm becoming the man i used to be, i guess","I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave. Can you and your associates arrange that for me?","We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.","I can hurt you, I can hurt you, but I never ever ever ever would. No, father. I love you, father---","Even suffering has its own meaning. And there is always beauty in meaning.","i move with the trees in the breeze. i know that time is elastic, and i know when i go, all my particles will disband and disperse, and i'll be back in the pulse","I learnt a poem like that, a long time ago. I found it deep in my own dreams, instructed by a great teacher, before I found out all of what I am.","Claire: Just what I need. Parenting tips from a talking hubcap.", "Isaac: May I make a final observation? Your children are unruly, disrespectful, volatile, and highly unpredictable. I am quite fond of them.", "When I get demoted, it'll be because I earned it!","We also need someone to act as a couple, and since the Cerritos is statistically the horniest and least romantically committed crew in Starfleet, we have no married officers aboard. ","I want to be loved like a person, not like a dog", "reincarnate my throat to the wolf","Will this feeling ever go away? / Will it take a sixth extinction just to kill off all the pain? / Wish I could live my life in peace / Without ripping off a little bit of meat / I can’t take another night inside my body", "'Your heart?' 'Sort of.' 'Your soul?' 'Yes. And it brought me here.'"];
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