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Mikaela
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Kindred
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The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home.
“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Shut up, you insufferable shitweasel,”
― Legends & Lattes
― Legends & Lattes
“Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“it was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind. Well, not if you have too much, then it’s something else.”
― Legends & Lattes
― Legends & Lattes
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
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