“That ugly freak has spent so much time in my head, I should be charging him rent." -Four”
― The Fall of Five
― The Fall of Five
“Cesaron los estertores y sacudidas del viejo alce. La luna, que ascendía por el firmamento, se reflejó en sus ojos, negros y sin vida. Sólo entonces soltó a su presa el macho dominante. Sentado en sus cuartos traseros, apuntó al cielo con su hocico empapado de sangre y aulló. Todos los miembros de su familia levantaron la cabeza y le imitaron, tanto los protagonistas de la caza como sus espectadores. La muerte había ocupado el lugar de la vida; y así, a través de la muerte, la vida veía garantizada su continuidad. En aquel todo sangriento, vivos y muertos quedaban unidos por un ciclo tan antiguo e inmutable como la luna que describía su órbita por encima de sus cabezas.”
― The Loop
― The Loop
“We curse the US government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaver. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance." (from the journals of Margaret Kelly)”
― One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd
― One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd
“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosophers was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
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