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“You might go on thinking that we cats are supporting characters in your human dramas, instead of souls in four-legged bodies with our own compelling destinies. Pet is a word I have always detested. Anyone who truly loves a cat must admit that it is a love between equals- it does not fall from a great height like rain, or pity.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“Freak luck, Ant. The way a bone will sometimes set crooked. That’s what made you a witch.” Cherry takes a mechanical view of what happened inside us. We survived a blast that opened a door. In most people, the door becomes a wall again. Time heals it. Time seals it shut. For us, there is no more door. There is a permanent opening—a vacancy. Space for rent.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“can see this ain’t what you pictured. You tell me what’s missing. What would it take to make this place feel like home?” “My bones in the ground,” I told him. “And even then, I’d just be visiting.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“Torture takes every desire from you until the best thing you can imagine is the cessation of pain.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“Run for your life, said a deep voice inside me. It sounded so much older than I was. Older than humans, the voice from under the stones. Perhaps the angels were counseling me also, but I could not hear them over the tornado. I obeyed. I ran. To be pursued by a cloud is a terrifying experience, like trying to outrun a forest fire, a predator that could not see or hear or smell me, that would consume me without realizing it. Hunger without a body to contain it. Hunger nourishing itself with anything in its path, trees and dams and sheds and silos and entire barns.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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