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“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it'll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble.”
― Tehanu
― Tehanu
“Yearning," I repeated softly. "What a beautiful word to hear a butch say out loud.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“My chin ached and trembled. "You know," I told them, "I've been searching for you all for such a long time. I can't believe I've finally found you." I squeezed Ruth tightly in my arms as we both cried.
Esperanza rested her hand on my thigh. "Do you know what my name means?"
I shook my head. "No, but it sure is pretty."
She smiled and looked at me with a sure, unwavering expression. "Esperanza," she explained-- "it means hope.”
― Stone Butch Blues
Esperanza rested her hand on my thigh. "Do you know what my name means?"
I shook my head. "No, but it sure is pretty."
She smiled and looked at me with a sure, unwavering expression. "Esperanza," she explained-- "it means hope.”
― Stone Butch Blues
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