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“This body holds the body. This arm holds the spear. And the spear cuts through water.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“They cut so much from you, but not everything, it seems. They still believe memories are citizens of the mind. But memories also live in the bones, and the blood.”
― The Vanished Birds
― The Vanished Birds
“But a part of me still revolts against the notion that this is our basic nature; that we are, in essence, self-serving creatures. That love is an explainable construct and souls are a pretty feint to distract ourselves from our own cruel emptiness.”
― The Vanished Birds
― The Vanished Birds
“Keema stepped toward Jun, and touched him. His arm, his bony cheek, his lips, and Jun received that touch as he would the water from a waterfall, with eyes closed and face upturned. "You feel like the sun," Jun said.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“His voice is small when he says, out loud, “I was so close.” He is looking at Jun when he says this. Jun refuses to look at him; he knows that if he does, he will change his mind. Keema is looking at Jun and he is crying. I was so close.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
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