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“She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.”
― Lian Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon

“I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.”
― Philip Pullman

“I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.”
― Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor

“I am not made for despair”
― lian hearn