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"I'm only two stories in, but I really loved Be Not Afraid by Ashia Monet. Great message/commentary, really interesting MC, and it was also fitting having just come from reading more of BWoC2." — Apr 05, 2026 02:03PM
"I'm only two stories in, but I really loved Be Not Afraid by Ashia Monet. Great message/commentary, really interesting MC, and it was also fitting having just come from reading more of BWoC2." — Apr 05, 2026 02:03PM
“Money and currency are very strange things.
They keep on going up and down and no one knows why;
If you want to win, you lose, however hard you try.”
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They keep on going up and down and no one knows why;
If you want to win, you lose, however hard you try.”
―
“What, my studious daughter, have you already put away the tool of your intelligence and consigned it to silence? Have you let your ink dry and abandoned your pen and the labour of your right hand, when you used to take such pleasure in it? Do you now intend to take seriously the propaganda of Laziness, who, if you are inclined to believe it, will sing sweetly to you: "You have done enough. It is time that you had a rest."
'But don't you know that, although after great labour the wise person rests [their] mind, now is not the time to abandon good work? It is not like you to be among those who give up in mid-course. The knight who leaves the field of battle before the moment of victory is deeply shamed, for the laurel wreath belongs to those who persevere. Now stand up and make your hand ready; get up out of the ashes of indolence!”
― The Treasure of the City of Ladies
'But don't you know that, although after great labour the wise person rests [their] mind, now is not the time to abandon good work? It is not like you to be among those who give up in mid-course. The knight who leaves the field of battle before the moment of victory is deeply shamed, for the laurel wreath belongs to those who persevere. Now stand up and make your hand ready; get up out of the ashes of indolence!”
― The Treasure of the City of Ladies
“This had to be one of those human customs where the humans all knew what was wrong. They put the pieces of their horrible puzzles together automatically, and outcast anybody who could not. How was one supposed to do that?”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Alas, what will become of me who never has a single day's rest? I do not think I shall ever know repose or ease...”
― Merlin Merlot
― Merlin Merlot
“...satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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