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RamingoWS14 мая 2018 г.I have never seen any place on Earth as beautiful, improbable, and beautifully ridiculous as Australia. Whatever god or devil first conceived of the place deserves some sort of award, and possibly a smack in the head.
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"See, this is the trouble with a relationship founded on lies," she said. "Eventually, we stop believing each other."
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"It`s not going to happen," I said. "We`re not going to let that happen."
"Are you lying to me?" The question was mildly asked, and there was no blame behind it: she clearly understood the impulse. She just wanted to know.
"I hope not," I said, and put my arms around her, as much as the airline seats allowed. "I really do."1 понравилось23 - RamingoWS14 мая 2018 г.
You know it`s going to be a bad scene when your most fervent hope is that your opponents devolve into a mindless, primal killing-machine state as quickly as possible.
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Grandma Alice is still looking for him, and continues to insist that he`s not dead, even though it`s been more than sixty years. Hope springs eternal, I guess, and is rarely questioned when it`s harbored by a woman whose idea of "Hello" sometimes involves frag grenades.
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I leaned back in my seat and opened the guide to the chapter on drop bears, which included some sketches that made me want to ask the pilot to turn the plane around. Give me a nice normal waheela or wendigo any day: drop bears were freaky.
(Yes, "give me a nice normal thing that I can find where I come from" is a statement drenched in colonialism and privelege: it supposes that the ecosystem that the speaker comes from is normal, and all other ecosystems are somehow weird or flawed. At the same time, Australia basically holds the copyright on "weird ecosystem." The only place where you`re going to find weirder things is at the bottom of the ocean, and no one suggests that you go there for a fun family vacation.)1 понравилось26 - RamingoWS14 мая 2018 г.
Airplanes: essentially buses that fly, and hence have the potential to drop out of the sky at any moment, spreading your insides -- which will no doubt become your outsides sometime during the collision -- across whatever you happen to have been flying over. Since we were flying mostly over ocean, I was sure the sharks would appreciate our sacrifice.
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The best thing you can ever do for the people who love you is to make it home alive.
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Empathy is a beautiful thing. It`s also a luxury. When your back is against the wall, remember that survival comes before sympathy, and if you can only save one person, you have to save yourself.
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