“The first and most basic exercise in magic is looking at oneself.”
https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/09/09/the-first-and-most-basic-exercise-in-magic-is-looking-at-oneself/
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“Within three seconds, the screen showed a blinking cursor. No bells. No whistles. Just a keyboard and a console. Exactly the way computers should be.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/06/23/within-three-seconds-the-screen-showed-a-blinking-cursor-no-bells-no-whistles-just-a-keyboard-and-a-console-exactly-the-way-computers-should-be/ #45MinuteLiteratureFictionShortReads #45MinuteMysteryThrillerSuspenseShortReads #45MinuteScienceFictionFantasyShortReads #AndyWeir #blinkingCursor #book #Computers #console #exactly #keyboard #noBells #noWhistles #quote #screen #seconds #theWay -
“It’s a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/10/its-a-hard-thing-to-look-at-something-you-want-and-to-know-that-the-right-choice-is-to-turn-it-down/ #45MinuteLiteratureFictionShortReads #45MinuteScienceFictionFantasyShortReads #alternativeHistory #book #CouplesMarieSRomansNouvellesEtc #FemmesAstronautesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #hardThing #InterplanetaryVoyages #InterplanetaryVoyagesFiction #know #lookAtSomething #MarriedPeople #MarriedPeopleFiction #MarsPlanet #MarsPlanetFiction #MarsPlaneTeRomansNouvellesEtc #MaryRobinetteKowal #PopularFiction #quote #rightChoice #ScienceFiction #turnItDown #VoyagesInterplaneTairesRomansNouvellesEtc #want #WomenAstronauts #WomenAstronautsFiction
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“Seeing this world as it was rather than through the fabular lens of Gramps’s stories was fucking enlightening.”
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“Be the beggar at Allah’s door, he told me gently. He loves humility. It’s in the mendicant’s bowl that the secrets of Self are revealed.”