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Crying isn't sadness; it happens because an emotion is too big for your body.

Bai had gone into the kitchen with a six-pack and now he came back into the living room holding one beer. It was like the opposite of a miracle.

'There are no refunds. That's the point of the game.' I should have bought two.

(The game in question has half-dead aliens wanting refunds from the gatekeeper to the afterlife... "Should have bought two" is an alien expression that kind of combines "buyer beware" and "have your cake and eat it too")

Don't be a guy who feels bad. Nobody ever knows what to do. Our life-task is to decide what to do.

A static document is a fossil of thought.

I dropped a leaf into a hole
And you dropped me in turn. I found
That gravity reversed its pull
And through the sky was solid ground.
We drop, are dropped, and each to each
It's what we do, it's not profound.
And if a hole is out of reach
We take a longer way around.
We fall in all directions. Some
Find lucky landings, higher ground.
I wait, instead, for help to come
And some of us are never found.

I left a message in the ice:
The time, the distance and the price.

(The game in question is about a stranded astronaut trying to return home.)

It wouldn't be the first time the power of love was responsible for a whole lot of bullshit.

Those were some passages I really liked on rereading Leonard Richardson's "Constellation Games". Man, I wish I knew how to get this book the attention "Ready Player One" gets... it's orders of magnitude superior.