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- scariest alien message to receive from outer space
I have been watching you since you learned to walk. I have been protecting you since you learned to talk. I have been killing for you since you learned to write. One hundred twelve times I have slain a race that would subjugate you or worse. Following this message is an aggressor powerful enough to destroy me. I love you. Good luck.
Tomorrow X Together
- Anti-Romantic (English translation)
Sorry I'm an anti-romantic. I want to run away, far away. My heart is already chasing after you, and burning with small embers. Sorry I'm an anti-romantic. I don't believe, anymore, in being romantic. As my entire heart burns, I'm afraid that only black ashes will remain.
Big Sis Prinny
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
But if we are destined to part again, then wouldn't it be better to watch from afar and leave without a single word? He has suffered enough already... my silence is how I show my love.
Advanced Typist
- When Typing...
When going through your typing journey, remember to reward yourself whenever you get a high score. Don't strain yourself. Focus on efficient practice that really matters. Fix your weak spots instead of drilling test after test. Work on your accuracy. But most important of all, treat typing like art, a skill that's fun to show off, and more fun to engage in.
WKWKWK
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali.
Farquaad
- Farquaad's Speech
That champion shall have the honor, no, no, the privilege to go forth and rescue the lovely Princess Fiona from the fiery keep of the dragon. If for any reason the winner is unsuccessful, the first runner-up will take his place and so on and so forth. Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. Let the tournament begin!
Emily B
- the single life
I've been single for 6 years which is crazy to think about. I do enjoy being single, but when my friends who are in serious relationships mention their significant others all the time, I feel lonely. I question why I haven't found anyone yet, but then I realize, I rather people question why I'm still single rather than question why I'm with someone who I settled for. And now I will be single for as long as it takes.
Richard Powers
- The Overstory
The comic made him a superhero, with the power to make things spring up from the dirt. It said nothing about the philanthropist with a shrewd sense of property, the tramp who'd die owning twelve hundred acres of the richest land in the country. She always thought he was just myth. She must still discover that myths are basic truths twisted into mnemonics, instructions posted from the past, memories waiting to become predictions.
My Psych Class
- Genie
There is a critical period for children to develop language. Although people can still learn a language after this period, they will never master it. Genie was a child who's mother was blind and father a schizophrenic. She was locked in a closet until she was thirteen, and had no language knowledge. Once she was rescued she was taught English, but it was similar to an adult learning their second language. Even after extensive training she will never speak with ease.
Taylor Swift
- The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
Was any of it true? Gazing at me starry-eyed in your Jehovah's Witness suit, who the fuck was that guy? You tried to buy some pills, from a friend of friends of mine. They just ghosted you. Now you know what it feels like. And I don't even want you back, I just want to know... if rusting my sparkling summer was the goal. And I don't miss what we had, but could someone give... A message to the smallest man who ever lived.
Rumaan Alam
- Children - Leave the World Behind
They had asked themselves questions when they decided to have children-do we have the money, do we have the space, do we have what it takes-but they didn't ask what the world would be when their children grew.
Alexandra Bracken
- The Darkest Legacy
The scars of what had happened were still there, not glued together to try to minimize the appearance of them, but glowing with thin rivulets of gold - more beautiful for having once been broken.
Bram Stoker
- Dracula -- Jonathan Harker's Journal
To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.
H. P. Lovecraft
- Excerpt from "The Festival"
Out of the unimaginable blackness beyond the gangrenous glare of that cold flame, out of the Tartarean leagues through which that oily river rolled uncanny, unheard, and unsuspected, there flopped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things that no sound eye could ever wholly grasp, nor sound brain ever wholly remember. They were not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor vampire bats, nor decomposed human beings; but something I cannot and must not recall.
Ian Reid
- Hope
One likes to think there is always hope. It is a uniquely human fantasy that things will get better, born, perhaps, of the uniquely human understanding that things will not. There's no way to know for certain, but I suspect humans are the only animals that know the inevitability of their own death. Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot. So they invented hope.
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
- Horned Lark
Common in expansive open areas with barren or only sparsely vegetated ground such as beaches, plowed fields, and edges of airport runways. Usually in flocks of up to hundreds, often mixed with longspurs or Snow Bunting. Feeds on seeds and insects gleaned from low vegetation or the ground. Size and color reminiscent of sparrows; note short-legged crouching posture, relatively brown plumage, bold face pattern with dark mask, and dark breast-band. In flight, note long wings and short square tail.
Anonymous
- First World Sales
Selling poison as a cure. Drinks that make us thirstier. Food that makes us hungrier. News that makes us dumber. Company that makes us lonelier. Money that makes us poorer. Recreation that makes us work more. With friends like these, who needs enemies.
Rafael Sabatini
- "No dishonour in work" - Marquis of Carabas
"Of Monsieur de La Vauvraye," he continued, "let me tell you something more. He borrowed a guinea from me a month ago. He is by no means the only Knight of St. Louis who has borrowed my guineas. But he is the only one who has ever repaid me. That was a week ago, and I must suppose that he earned that guinea as a valet. If you have debts, messieurs, it seems to me that no servitude that enables you to repay them can be accounted dishonouring."
Anonymous
- Ponzi Scheme of life
Everyone talks their book, and everyone searches for the answers they want. There can be no lies in this system, because the desired answer is unquestionable, and the undesired answer requires further investigation. And so the Ponzi Scheme of life goes on, as we pass our desired answers down to the next generation of suckers.
Bangtan Sonyeondan
- Outro: Tear
If someone turned back time for me, could I maybe have been more honest? My bare face that only I know, and my ugly and humble old friends within myself. Could you have still loved me with the smile you used to make while looking at me? Forever, stop saying things like forever. There's gotta be an end anyway. If there's a beginning, I don't wanna listen to that. I was just so scared, because it felt like maybe I had never loved you at all, not even once.
