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one way or another, are we not all made things who had no say in our own beginnings? It is only when we discover our agency and begin to make choices that deviate from our makers’ intentions for us that our lives begin.
“This is not planet Earth as we found it. This is a new place—a fire planet we have made, with an atmosphere more conducive to combustion than at any time in the past 3 million years.”
― Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
― Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
“Fifty thousand ancestors, going back and back, each of them a final girl. But, that’s just it, isn’t it? They were plural, not singular, that’s where horror movies have it all wrong, that’s where the slasher lies: it’s not about a lone girl carving her way to daylight, is it? It’s about two girls making it across the ice together.”
― Don't Fear the Reaper
― Don't Fear the Reaper
“[I]t has been one long desolation, one long hungry season since the other people came and took the land and the language and the very lives of the people. A hungry season, even for It.”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
“it wasn’t us, it would have been another regiment,” I said, calmer again. “You can’t stop a country from happening, Good Stab.” “But we were already a nation,” he said up to me. “We didn’t ask you to come.”
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“I believed what my father told me. Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
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