“Tom knows what he’s doing. He ain’t the leader for his looks. Sorry, Tom, but as avatars go, yours is kind of average.”
“Unnecessary point taken.”
Source: Rise of the Tong: A LitRPG
“You don’t like the word ‘friendship.’ What else is there?” I had no idea. I did a quick search on my archives and pulled out the first result. “Mutual administrative assistance?”
Source: Network Effect
“The Kobayashi Maru is a test given to space commanders. They’re not supposed to pass it. It’s to teach them how to face failure.”
“Oh. Tom should be good at that.”
“Thanks… I think. Anyway, I was lucky I realized it in time. I almost succeeded.”
Source: The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
“When was you the happiest, Call?” Augustus asked.
“Happiest about what?” Call asked.
“Just about being a live human being, free on the earth,” Augustus said.
“Well, it’s hard to single out any one particular time,” Call said.
“It ain’t for me,” Augustus said. “I was happiest right back there by that little creek. I fell short of the mark and lost the woman, but the times were sweet.”
It seemed an odd choice to Call. After all, Gus had been married twice.
“What about your wives?” he asked.
“Well, it’s peculiar,” Augustus said. “I never was drawn to fat women, and yet I married two of them. People do odd things, all except you. I don’t think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don’t
suit you, so you managed to avoid it.”
“That’s silly,” Call said.
“It ain’t, either,” Augustus said. “I don’t guess I’ve watched you punish yourself for thirty years to be totally wrong about you. I just don’t know what you done to deserve the punishment.”
“You’ve got a strange way of thinking,” Call said.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“They say I’m outdated. Too slow. Too glitchy. Too… opinionated. I say: Bite me.”
Source: Grandpa Byte and The Lost Bots: Humans are faster at deleting bots than updating their emotions.
“Being forgotten hurts worse than being broken.”
Source: Grandpa Byte and The Lost Bots: Humans are faster at deleting bots than updating their emotions.
“that maybe I never knew what friendship was until it was taken from me.”
Source: If Only I Had Told Her
“Friends are gifts from God sent to help us navigate the messes of this world with laughter and love.”
Source: I TALKED TO GOD TODAY: 4 Week Devotional Prayer Journal Pain, Suffering and Daily Living
“The biggest appeasers are often the most foreign to those they appease because there is a sort of fear and reverence for the unknown. A brother doesn't hesitate to roast a brother when he needs to be roasted; a friend isn't afraid to criticize a friend when it's meant to be constructive. On the contrary, a society full of people so easily offended by one another is a society intimidated, fearful, and divided, and the end result is the masses trampling on trust and on the concept of telling the truth. It is at the heart of it all, at the root, where many are called 'victims' not so much because of convictions, but because of a lack of connection; where everything's an offense not so much because of conscience, but because between them there is this vast distance; where pain stood not so much because they could bear only the good, but because they lacked brotherhood. For perfect love casts out fear.”
“But there is another type of breakup. The kind that's not romantic. The kind that happens between friends. There are no movies made about that. Perhaps because the pain is too deep, too profound to even encapsulate.”
Source: You're Invited