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Whatever name this young woman was called before she will never be addressed by it again, it stays in her past. Someday she may have a new name, but for the moment she is nameless.
“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."
"They're not empty now.”
― Little Women
"They're not empty now.”
― Little Women
“Anger was a fire in a grate, and I'd never had any wood to burn. Until now, it seemed.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women’s work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water. I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
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