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Nona Williams
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People carry electricity for me; they have a current that surges around my body until I’m exhausted. It’s hard to pinpoint what it is, exactly; something about their noise, their unruly movement, the unpredictable demands they might make on
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“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”
― Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
― Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
“I cannot help but know it. Against all sense, I believe. Somewhere, beyond the ragged edge of night, light bleeds into this world.”
― The Ragged Edge of Night
― The Ragged Edge of Night
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
― Wayward
― Wayward
“. While we might believe that pretty is as pretty does, on some level we want to see youth and beauty as signs of goodness, of innocence. The attractive woman is given a pass. The ugly one gets the chair.”
― To the Bridge
― To the Bridge
“The president’s thoughts were frenetic. It’s a disconcerting experience to attempt a conversation with him because he talks the whole time. He asks questions but then immediately starts to say something else. Almost everything he says he subsequently rephrases two or three times, as if he’s stuck in some holding pattern waiting for an impulse to arrive that kicks off the next thing he wants to say. It all adds up to a bizarre encounter.”
― The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
― The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
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