Silversunset

I've learned over the years that people think they want absolution. But that's not what they really need to hear.
They need to hear "even if it's your fault, I will love you anyway."

- Carissa Broadbent, The Fallen & The Kiss of Dusk

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

Re-released on my bday? Sounds like a happy birthday to me!

A promotional image for The Myst Trilogy eBook. The text reads “Available Now – The Myst Trilogy – A digital omnibus collecting the first three Myst novels.” The background is textured leather with metal rivets, reminiscent of an antique book cover. A Kindle e-reader displays a stylized sketch of a machine and a short passage of text beneath it.

✨📚 We're thrilled to announce that after being unavailable for 7 years, the digital omnibus collection of the first three Myst novels is once again available as The Myst Trilogy!

Buy them for the FIRST TIME EVER on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books 👇

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poison
You cannot eat money, oh no
- AURORA, The Seed

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't."
- Stephen King, The Stand

“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”
- Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
- Declaration of Independence
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
- Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works...

...Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Jungle for sure. It's so calm and peaceful, and I imagine it smells like warm wet dirt ❤️

Living the nerd life!

Absolute beautiful pins, I have both and they are a fantastic add to my nerd bag where I love showing off all my favorite things!

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams - RATEOTU

Longfellow's Poem - Paul Revere House

LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-...

You are special. This doesn't mean you're better or above anyone else, but everyone has their own value.
- Alison Botha

"The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness."
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked

“And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”
- Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
- Stephen King, Night Shift

So excited!!!!!!

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
- Stephen King

Never yelled so loud at the jeopardy screen as when @cyan.com sneaks in!

“In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.”
- Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

"Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible"
- Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael (Ishmael, #3)

"Does it really matter if your cage is solid gold when you aren't allowed to leave it? A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded."

- Raven Kennedy, Gild (The Plated Prisoner, #1)

That's amazing! I've played Myst and Riven since they came out but I def don't have the alpha tester luck! I can't imagine being able to see how much it's changed since then, I'm envious!

That is... the most correct answer lol

I have the moiety dagger too!

The question is... is that a good thing or a bad thing? 😇