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“Perhaps that’s because Rhysand has not lost you at all. But rather unleashed you upon us.”
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“If people are pressured by society into saying they have particular abilities, then the true value they have as themselves becomes blurred. If you say you have value because you can do particular things, you will always be judged by established social standards. So I never say I can do anything. And I don’t do anything.”
― Rental Person Who Does Nothing
― Rental Person Who Does Nothing
“Normally Fosco adores Caroline’s pieces, fragmented narratives involving anxious young women who clearly have never had jobs, who instead brood through afternoonish times of day, think quirky thoughts, bake, and are wistful.”
― Bunny
― Bunny
“I think that when I was looking for a job, I felt exactly as I do today—that I don’t want my identity to be defined by a set of abilities.”
― Rental Person Who Does Nothing
― Rental Person Who Does Nothing
“In those hours, they frequently asked themself what it was they were doing. They never truly felt like they got a handle on that. They kept doing it all the same.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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