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I remembered something Sissy once told me back when flowers still grew in her garden. She told me the cells in our bodies were completely replaced every seven years. The cells of my body were igniting and dying and being reborn. Soon I
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“The furniture was like a mixed bag of old buttons. Crude pine stools, tables with finely carved legs, and soft padded chairs stood next to crates nailed together.”
― Flight
― Flight
“You are hierarchical. That’s the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It’s a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all …” The rattling sounded again. “That was like ignoring cancer. I think your people did not realize what a dangerous thing they were doing.”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“See, that’s what I don’t get. The Iyo let others settle in Iyun Bel, but it’s still their land. How do you declare a province on top of it?” Tiernan shrugged. “With fundamental disregard for others’ rights, I suppose. The political situation is . . . tense.” “I’d be tense if someone moved into my yard and expected me to obey their dumb laws.”
― Flight
― Flight
“You have to trust her before she will trust you,” Tiernan said. “Do not think about her previous rider. Horses have histories of their own.”
― Flight
― Flight
“By the end of 2014, UNHCR would record close to 60 million forcibly displaced people, 8 million more than in the previous year. Half of those were children. Every day that year, on average, 42,500 people became refugees, asylum seekers, or internally displaced, a fourfold increase in just four years.”
― A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
― A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
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