When Soviets were squashed down by life, by luck, by the system, they got resigned—the shoulders drooped. Hit an American with an equal dose of the same oppression and they went stiff—either with anger or with fear, but their shoulders and
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“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night.”
― The Pull of the Stars
― The Pull of the Stars
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