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“If I let him do this to me, what else will I allow? Anything, anything, anything.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest

“Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Diabolic