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Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

Neil Gaimam, Sandman Volume 4

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It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

Code Name Verity, Elizabeth E. Wein

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I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out.

Neil Gaiman, Sandman Volume 3

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So put an unpleasant gargoyle thing over the archway, give it a slam like the footfall of a giant and make it clear to everyone, in fact, that this isn't the kind of door that goes "ding-dong" when you press the bell.

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

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He turned to the others with the agonized expression of a man who has the whole great whirring machinery of the Universe to dismantle and only a bent paper clip to do it with.

Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett

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She looked that word up too, hoping to understand it, as understanding gave her power over things.

Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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Your error is fundamental to the human psyche: you have allowed yourself to believe that others are mechanisms, static and solvable, whereas you are an agent.

Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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hamilton + text posts (4/?)

this is never-ending

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Hamilton + Text Posts Part 21/?

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@DavidKorins: Superheroes c. 1776 #Hamilton #yayhamlet

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fun facts about marquis de lafayette

came to america illegally, against the rules of the king, disguised as a pregnant woman

didn’t tell his wife that he was gone until after he was sailing away

got captured and brought back to france again, escaped on a cargo ship and bought all of the cargo to keep the ship from stopping

was raised on a farm because after his father died his mom fucked off to paris without him

got laughed off the dance floor by marie antoinette once

after the revolution he came to america and people were making gloves with his face on them

he refused to kiss the hands of ladies wearing these gloves because he didn’t want to kiss himself

named his only son georges washington de lafayette

named his daughter marie antoinette virginie de lafayette and called her virginie after washington’s home state

fought in the revolution for free because he loved america that much

napped with george washington under a tree once while using washington’s coat as a blanket

he was super tall especially for the time, like 5'11"

became fluent in english within a year of arriving in america

found out about the revolution from king george’s cousin, who was complaining about the revolts at a dinner party

is buried under american soil and a little american flag flies over his grave to this day because he had it imported from bunker hill

he didn’t have to help us but he did it that was nice

and then we went and fucked up the country anyway

we need to fix it for him