“I engineered you to be a villain. Lack of empathy, lack of morals, deriving pleasure from the pain and suffering of others, I even gave you power and ability for you to abuse. So how could it be that not only you are not a villain, but also a hero in the eyes of others?”
“They were collectors of words the same way so many of the gravel diggers were collectors of fossils. They kept an ear constantly alert for them, the rare, the unusual, the unique.”
— Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
No safety. No food. No aid. No water. No healthcare. No education. Is this what it means to live? Is this what world accept as life?
If a group of animals were trapped, starved, and cut off from the world like this, people would be outraged. But because it's us—human beings—somehow, the world looks away.
These are unbearable days. Everything feels heavy. Each hour presses on my chest like I’m being suffocated.
Basic survival has become nearly impossible. Bread—just bread—now costs over $25 a day to make.
We are not asking for luxury. We are begging for life.
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“You are Korte Marshel and you live in the city of Chort as Marshal. One day your best friend, Kurt Martial, is ordered by a court-martial to be court-martialled for murdering a girl he was courting, Courtney Marcell. You need to make sure he’s caught before he flees to Quart in Marseilles.”
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.”
―Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Outpost, Cambria -- June 17th, 2023
Etsy
I may be a tiny speck of light In the cosmos.But I was not without purpose.
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