❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞

ᅠ𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 ᅠ𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙸𝙲𝚄𝙻𝙰𝚁 ᅠ𝙸𝙻𝙻𝚄𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽ᅠ 𝙾𝙵 ᅠ𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 ᅠ𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚁𝙴ᅠ 𝙸𝚂 ᅠ𝙲𝙰𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙳...

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄ᅠ 𝐌𝐘ᅠ 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐄 ᅠ𝐀𝐍𝐃ᅠ 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑 ᅠ𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓ᅠ 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 ᅠ𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄 ᅠ𝐀𝐒ᅠ 𝐖𝐄ᅠ 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 ᅠ𝐓𝐎 ᅠ𝐓𝐇𝐄ᅠ 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐎ᅠ-ᅠ𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐌 ᅠ𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐎

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

You know how excruciating it is when someone removes all of your bone marrow? Well, what if after I did that, I put something back IN that added four years to your life?

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

I'm brilliant. I'm not bragging. It's an objective fact.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

You don't leave until I say you're ready to leave. I jump, you say how high. I snap my fingers and you're red slurry in a barrel in the desert.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

A surgeon who's too shy to use a blade isn't going to help anybody.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Just a little sharper, and you'd be a pretty little scalpel. A silent weapon. Make yourself fitting of the history we will birth.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

I said "jump" and you jumped. But what I need, is somebody who when I say "jump," says "how high?" Can you be my How High?

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

How much longer is this going to go on?/You tell me./Lookin' at you, not long at all.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

No, don't wanna promise you a thing. Don't have to. You'll see. We'll have a home. We'll be home soon.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

You're Doctor Viktor and I'm your monster. Perfect.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Maybe it’s just the childish optimist in me, but humanity can be pretty impressive when we put our minds to it.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Human brains are amazing things. We can get used to just about anything.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

All life needs is a chemical reaction that results in copies of the original catalyst.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Broadly speaking, the human brain is a collection of software hacks compiled into a single, somehow-functional unit. Each “feature” was added as a random mutation that solved some specific problem to increase our odds of survival. In short, the human brain is a mess.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

It's a weird feeling, scientific breakthroughs. There's no Eureka moment. Just a slow, steady progression toward a goal. But man, when you get to that goal it feels good.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Intelligence evolves to gives us an advantage over the other animals on our planet. But evolution is lazy. Once a problem is solved, the trait stops evolving.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

Evolution can be insanely effective when you leave it alone for a few billion years.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

I’m smart enough now to know I’m stupid. That’s progress.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

When stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.

[❝𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑴 𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑶❞ @fueledflames]

I gasped. "Wait a minute! Am I a guinea pig? I'm a guinea pig!"
"No, it's not like that," she said.
I stared at her.
She stared at me.
I stared at her.
"Okay, it's exactly like that," she said.