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“This story was meant to show you: the ones we should save are already dead. Before he was your agong, he was my ba. Before he was my ba, he was a soldier. When you're a soldier, nothing comes before or after. Don't think I forgive him. Forgiveness is surgery, and I don't have the hand or the eye.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Curious how a man often calendared his glory and grief with a woman for asterisk.”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown