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Who could determine what counted as theft when museums and countries and civilizations saw the spoils of conquest as rightfully earned?
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Sarah Gailey
“You can fuck right off into the Canyon," Esther said, trying to keep the grin out of her voice.

Amity tipped her hat. "I've just been waiting for an invitation," she said. "I'll go let the boss know about it. Wouldn't want to fuck off into the Canyon without giving notice.”
― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
tags: humor

Sarah Gailey
“Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the only thing she could think.”
― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey
“It was a truth that didn't feel anything like safety.

It felt better than safety.

It felt like gunpowder at her back, driving her toward a fight that needed winning.

Keep fighting. It will be hard, and it will be awful, and it will be worth it. Don't give up, even when it feels like dying. Don't give up.

This is only the beginning.”
― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey
“But as soon as Cye walked away, everything fell out of Esther's mind save for the repetitive movement of the braiding and the question Cye had left her with. Not the question Cye had asked— do you believe everything you read?—but the question they hadn't asked: why do you believe everything you read?”
― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey
“She let her hand linger on his shoulder for a moment as she dismounted, and she hated herself for it, for all of it. For charming him. She hated herself, because she didn't rightly know why she was bothering to do it— she didn't need anything from him other than safe and free passage in and out of Endurance. But she did it anyway, more of a compulsion than a reflex. Her speech drifted to the familiar, the ungrammatical, the helpless. She caught herself tucking her chin down, trying to make herself look just a little shy.”
― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

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