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The Dark Mirror (The Bridei Chronicles, #1)

by Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)

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“Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.”
― Anne Carson

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“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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“When they made love
Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back
as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down
from the base of the neck
to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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