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She considered herself lucky generally. It was more self-preserving to imagine oneself lucky than to imagine oneself at the mercy of the gods.
“It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Sometimes when people hurt for a long time, they start to think that hurting is part of who they are. And then anything that helps the hurt, even healing, feels like it’s trying to strip part of them away.”
― What Stalks the Deep
― What Stalks the Deep
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”
― The Witching Hour
― The Witching Hour
“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
― The Scar
― The Scar
“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
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Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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