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“Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.”
― The Penelopiad
― The Penelopiad
“When one thing leaves your house or heart, it makes room for another to take its place. This is why it’s unwise to make solid statues inside. A statue takes up space without moving, without flowing, without growing.”
― Incidents Around the House
― Incidents Around the House
“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”
― The Pox Party
― The Pox Party
“Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.”
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“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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