

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Is success happiness?"
"What else could it be?”
― The Method to Infinite Things: A Gripping Dystopian Adventure
"What else could it be?”
― The Method to Infinite Things: A Gripping Dystopian Adventure
“Every villain is someone’s hero.”
― The Timespeaker: A Dark Fantasy Adventure
― The Timespeaker: A Dark Fantasy Adventure
“At what point do stars collapse?”
― The Method to Infinite Things: A Gripping Dystopian Adventure
― The Method to Infinite Things: A Gripping Dystopian Adventure

“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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