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We automatically think of domestication as something we do to other species, but it makes just as much sense to think of it as something certain plants and animals have done to us, a clever evolutionary strategy for advancing their own
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“My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died,” I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. “The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.” Irina”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, “And what will you give me in return?”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“I reached out my hands to them, suddenly: I put out my hand to Sergey on one side, and to Stepon on the other, and they put out their hands to me, and to each other, and we held tight, tight; we made a circle together, my brothers and me, around the food that we had been given, and there was no wolf in the room.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
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