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Maximilian Birkl
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The Nakba refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, when, over a period of several months, Jewish militia groups known as the Irgun and Haganah conducted raids, massacres, and depopulation campaigns across Palestine—all under
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“Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem.
I always remember him. That’s mine.”
― The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
I always remember him. That’s mine.”
― The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
“Then I will die on my feet," she said. "I will die with flames in my hand and fury in my heart. I will die fighting for the legacy of my people, rather than on Shiro's operating table, drugged and wasted. I will not die a coward.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued.”
― A Desolation Called Peace
― A Desolation Called Peace
“The motion of a swift is an impenetrable language; as incomprehensible to me as the thoughts of a flower when it opens its petals at dawn, without memory or mind. A coherent logic and a dance, but not one I can shape within myself. All my attempts are approximation. One cannot render meaning in language one finds meaningless; nevertheless I know there is a design, a speaking, a world just on the other side of shadow, untouchable but nonetheless real. Three years since I came home from Ebrekt, and I still dream of the swifts, running: in dreams, sometimes I understand them.”
― A Desolation Called Peace
― A Desolation Called Peace
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
― A Desolation Called Peace
― A Desolation Called Peace
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