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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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“Perhaps if I was not an individual organism but a species, able to prototype myself over millions of years, I might have faith that my body would one day become what it’s meant to be. Maybe I would have elongated limbs to skitter atop water or bony flippers to wedge into sand. I might have a layer of gelatin or retractable spines. Maybe the way I understand myself can accommodate the physical changes that only happen on an evolutionary timescale.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“I am an organism like any other, we people and pigeons and bacteria experiencing homeostasis on the sidewalk”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“Trauma is not just a catalyst to regeneration; it is the only catalyst.”
― 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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“Almost every system we exist in is cruel, and it is our job to hold ourselves accountable to a moral center separate from the arbitrary ganglion of laws that, so often, get things wrong.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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