“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”

— Scott Westerfeld, book So Yesterday

Source: So Yesterday

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