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“Knitting was never something Maria could understand. However, as she watched Emily Hayward make stitch after repetitive stitch as the woman sat on her spotless couch, Maria began to understand its beauty. The constant brainless movement massaged Maria’s over-stimulated senses. It relaxed her thoughts, and soothed her desire to be fast, speedy, always going somewhere. “You don’t mind do you?” asked Emily, raising her knitting and gesturing toward Maria. “It relaxes me.” “I can see how,” Maria responded. “And no, I don’t mind.”
― Robbed of Soul
― Robbed of Soul
“Good. Society as a whole cannot respect the individual. The ‘greater good’ of society, says there should be no place for the useless, the cripple who cannot work, the lazy, the mentally unstable, the genetically weak – the man who does not aid its running, or its ability to survive. It says the dead weight must be removed, or made to be useful. But if you say keep those alive, what you are saying is the survival of one, is more important than the ‘good’ of society – hence we don’t remove the useless, because most of society obviously does not know what’s ‘good’ for it... So, if we respect the individual, then one cannot abide by that theory of right and wrong.”
― Of North Blood Drawn
― Of North Blood Drawn
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