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China Miéville
“She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him, and he felt a great scab of habit and prejudice split from him, part from his skin where his homeland had inscribed him deep.

Heal me, he thought, not understanding what he thought, hoping for a reconfiguration. There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. Breathing fast again. His feelings welled out and bled together (their festering ceased) and they began to resolve, to heal in a new form, to scar.”
China Miéville, The Scar

Jean Meslier
“I wish (he said) that all the great men of the earth and all the nobles were strung up and strangled with the guts of the priests.”
Jean Meslier, Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier

Robin Hobb
“Once a man has been broken by pain, he remains forever a victim. He cannot ever forget that place he has visited, the moment when he decided that he would surrender everything rather than endure more pain. It is a shame no man ever completely recovers from. Some try to drown it by becoming the perpetrator of similar pain, and creating a new victim to bear for them that shame. Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it.”
Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

Shehan Karunatilaka
“History is people with ships and weapons wiping out those who forgot to invent them. Every civilisation begins with a genocide. It is the rule of the universe. The immutable law of the jungle, even this one made of concrete. You can see it in the movement of the stars, and in the dance of every atom. The rich will enslave the penniless. The strong will crush the weak.”
Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Katherine Rundell
“To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen.”
Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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