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I wonder, my dear reader, if things are different in your time, in your world? I do hope that they are. Were Holmes and I together in your day, I should like to think that we may exist without scrutiny, though something tells me it may be
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“But I say this to all the women reading this now, and to my future self: What you are angry about now - injustice - will still exist, even if you yourself are not experiencing it, or are tempted to stop thinking about how you are experience it, and how you contribute to it. Others are still experiencing it, still mad; some of them are mad at you. Don’t forget them; don’t write off their anger. Stay mad for them. Stay mad with them. They’re right to be mad, and you’re right to be mad alongside them. Being mad is correct; being mad is American; being mad can be joyful and productive and connective. Don’t ever let them talk you out of being mad again.”
― Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
― Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
“He had no name for it in the language of Ka; there was no name for it because he was the first Crow ever to feel it within him. Pity for them in the awful complications of the lives they built for themselves, laboring as helplessly and ceaselessly as bees building their combs, but their combs held no honey, he thought now. Useless, useless, and worse than useless, needless: the labor of their lives, the battles and deaths, and all their own doing. He lifted his wings to fly, to fly from this pity, but he could not; folded them in disorder; bowed with open mouth in pity.
If only he had not gone into Ymr. For out of Ymr he had brought pity into Ka, and now could never get it out.”
― Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
If only he had not gone into Ymr. For out of Ymr he had brought pity into Ka, and now could never get it out.”
― Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
“That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.”
― Adulthood Rites
― Adulthood Rites
“Kidding yourself doesn’t require that you have a sense of humor. But a sense of humor comes in handy for almost everything else.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
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