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4 It seems obvious to say, and yet worth saying, that most of these moments of violence are due to the colonialist’s instinct to transport, cage, and own what is fundamentally unownable: a wild animal, or even nature itself.
“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
― Rose in Bloom
― Rose in Bloom
“I think of you like a sister," he said. "Like a brilliant, violent, occasionally terrifying sister that I would follow to the ends of earth, in part because I respected her so much and in part because I feared what she would do to me of I refused. "
She nodded. "I would do awful things.”
― And I Darken
She nodded. "I would do awful things.”
― And I Darken
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
― The Power
― The Power
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