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1 " We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift! "
― Nino Cipri , Finna (LitenVerse #1)
2 " I guess I'm too much of a grammar nazi!" ... Ava wondered, not for the first time, why anyone would so proudly declare themselves to be any kind of nazi. "
3 " I understand this was a stressful shift for you," she said. "Why don't you take the rest of the day off? You've got some PTO saved up, I think. "
4 " My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit. "
5 " The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds. "
6 " Of course Jules was alive, they had never faced a challenge whose ass they couldn't kick, and they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected. "
7 " I really thought another universe would look cooler." Jules sounded disappointed. "I guess LitenVärld is the same everywhere," she said. "That's what people want, right? Familiarity? "
8 " It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade. "
9 " This video is making me gayer out of spite,' Jules muttered, clear even from the other side of the room. "
10 " Ava had never really had to deal with an emergency; just the slow disaster that was her life. "
11 " She'd lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she'd accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control. "
12 " LitenVärld accepts no responsibility or liability for any losses or injuries that wormholes incur, since they fall under the Act of God "
13 " Existence isn’t a gift, it’s a right, Jules had replied. But having to reclaim it every day makes life easier to appreciate, maybe. "
14 " I will trade you my soul for coffee," they'd said solemnly. Then, when they saw that all Ava had were Nifty! brand beans from PriceLow, they cringed and said, "Those only get part of my soul. "
15 " It's what everyone thinks," Jules said. Their face - normally open, armed with joy and humor - was stony and closed off. "Like doing things my own way is the most ridiculous shit they've ever heard of, even though it's the only way I've ever been happy. Nobody says it to my face, but everyone here treats me like it's a miracle I've gotten this far on my own "
16 " Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while. "
17 " Two small words could never encompass everything you have to apologize for. "
― Nino Cipri , The Shape of My Name
18 " We'll keep each other firmly on this earth. "
19 " She’d lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she’d accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control. "
20 " but Ava could hear everything Jules was feeling in those two words: grief, but also acceptance, "
