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Book cover for What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
You show up to basic training and they hand you a sword and a new set of pronouns.
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Roxane Gay
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

T. Kingfisher
“You show up to basic training and they hand you a sword and a new set of pronouns.”
T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
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