“... it's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out for other things-- fancy possessions for sure, pedigree, maybe youth too... we beat Them (and spare ourselves a lot of tedium and terror) by declining to worship.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“I can’t explain, maybe it isn’t something that needs explaining, how the sight of a broken cage just puts you up on stilts. The promise that the cage will always be empty, that its days as a jailhouse are done.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one. But of course if you take that path you may also find that in the end you're unloved.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
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