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Ending even one life was a big deal, and the farther away from that notion a person got, the more lives became expendable. Numbers in a chart. Collateral damage. Acceptable risks and the cost of doing business, of finishing the mission, of
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“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“We were children - playing in the reflections of stars in a pool of water... Thinking it was space.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree.”
― Woman, Eating
― Woman, Eating
“Forgive me-- a monster so rarely feels wanted.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
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aleks’s 2025 Year in Books
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