“Imagine, I can't stop saying. Imagine, I beg,
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
“Say it plain, see if it's powerful. Say it slant, see if it's possible. Distraction, diversion, the clumsy decorations? Cheap magic. A smoke screen. Without the truth, there can be no fiction. Nonsense needs reason. To push against. I didn't howl at the moon, I yelled at a lamp. Subject verse. Someone wept. Some things are more important than poetry.”
― I Do Know Some Things
― I Do Know Some Things
“She ran down the spine of the house, her body a shiver traveling over the staircase.”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
“What are we really?” she asked. “What do you mean?” “Is it our blood that makes us who we are?”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
“Never finish a war without
starting another. I've seen your true face: the back
of your head. If you were walking away, keep walking.”
― War of the Foxes
starting another. I've seen your true face: the back
of your head. If you were walking away, keep walking.”
― War of the Foxes
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