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“This is one of the few sheer pleasures Louise knows in life: the near-otherworldly feeling of touching another human's body with your own body in a way that, for the first time, transcends mere friendliness. These are the times in her life that Louise has felt most acutely the animal nature of her humanity, and therefore they have been the most comforting. To be a human is complex, and often painful; to be an animal is comfortingly simple and good.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“Being humorless, she thought, was even worse than being dumb.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“We can do as we please, if we only learn not to care so much about what people think.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“Do you ever worry that being born into money has stunted us?” Alice blanched. “I don’t mean anything by it,” said Delphine. “It’s just—lately I’ve been wondering whether having all of our material needs met from birth has been a positive aspect of our lives. It seems to me it may have resulted in some absence of yearning or striving in us. The quest, I like to call it. When one’s parents or grandparents have already quested and conquered, what is there for subsequent generations to do?”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
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