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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Witch King (The Rising World, #1) by Martha Wells

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The girl said, “Do you have to do that to people to live?” “No,” Kai told her. “I did it because I wanted to. And bad people taste better than good ones.” He held out his hand.

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“We both had been expected to be daughters but turned out to be something else. We had shed our skins, not like snakes but insects—each of us a nymph outgrowing exoskeleton after exoskeleton, and morphing as we did. We didn’t know which molt would be our last, only that we might not be there yet, both of us rivers moving toward the sea.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“I predict I will always be in negotiation with my body, what it wants, and what I want of it.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“Feral goldfish are so good at living they have become an ecological menace. Of course, it’s not their fault; goldfish would never have gotten into the river if we hadn’t thought of them as disposable.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“Why do we teach girls their perspectives are inherently untrustworthy?" I would yell. I want to reclaim these word. After all, melodrama comes from melos, which means music, honey. A drama queen is nonetheless a queen.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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