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“Gods are stupid and shortsighted. They’re like children.” She shook her head. “No. They’re worse. They’re like men—no sense of unintended consequences or follow-through.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“I shall not miss you, Mother. Perhaps I won’t even remember you. Does a flower remember its life as a seed? Does a phoenix recall itself as it burns anew? You will not see me again. I shall be but a shadow streaking across the sky—fleeting, speeding, and utterly gone.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Even now, after all these years, she is a memory of a memory of a memory—her own kind of unsolvable, inscrutable knot.)”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me.” —THE BAAL SHEM TOV”
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
“Ignore them,” city officials said, without saying who exactly people were supposed to ignore. As though by ignoring them, eventually the dragons would go away.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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